Hi Alan, At 04:25 PM 1/31/2006, you wrote: >IIUC, ASCOM is a set of Windows COM objects which provides a >standardised API for controlling telescopes. Since it uses Windows >COM, you should be able to control it easily from python using the >excellent win32 extensions.
Yes, I had seen it, and it looks well developed - but - it _requires_ Windows COM. (I do use Win32 and ctypes for talking to interface cards and such, that I actually get paid for) but even the company I do it for is migrating to LINUX (slowly) by customer demand (!) and I guess don't want to do new COM projects. INDI actually looks like a great project - but - it's _only_ LINUX... http://indi.sourceforge.net/ There are a good number of professional astro Python creations supported by STSCI and Enthought http://www.stsci.edu/resources/software_hardware/ Kstars http://edu.kde.org/kstars/indi.php looks nice but uses its own scripting and only runs on LINUX I see the professional Astronomy community moving to Python, and I think it's a good idea to ride their coat-tails; university projects like Galileo and DRACO use Meade LX's as undergraduate study tools, with Python/LINUX. Thanks for the reply, Ray -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list