Telescope Control
| Deep-Sky Planner 5 uses the ASCOM software package to control your telescope and provide real-time feedback from your telescope or digital setting circles (DSC).These are standard features in Deep-Sky Planner. |  |
Click here to determine whether your equipment is supported by ASCOM.
You can slew your telescope to any reported object in Deep-Sky Planner with just a mouse click, or synchronize the coordinates of your telescope or digital setting circles (DSC) to the position of any reported object. These operations are performed asynchronously if your equipment's driver supports it.
The Telescope Control Panel
Deep-Sky Planner gives you more than just Go To telescope control. You can:
- view the real-time position, time and local sidereal time reported by your telescope/DSC
- synchronize your telescope's latitude & longitude with your favorite location in Deep-Sky Planner (or vice versa)
- synchronize your telescope's time with your PC's system time (or vice versa.)
Note: Windows 7 and Vista users need administrative privileges to change system time. - park, un-park and set telescope parking position
- home your telescope
- abort a slewing operation
- start and stop tracking
Setting Observing Site Latitude & Longitude for Deep-Sky Planner using Telescope Information
Special Note for Users of Software Bisque's Paramount ME
You should configure TheSky to control the Paramount, and choose TheSky controlled telescope in Deep-Sky Planner to be your ASCOM driver. This allows Deep-Sky Planner to send commands through TheSky to the mount.