This is the home of the ASCOM Initiative, a loosely-knit group of astronomy software developers and astronomy device manufacturers devoted to vendor-independent plug-and-play control. ASCOM is a many-to-many and language-independent architecture, supported by most astronomy devices which connect to computers. The diagram below shows how ASCOM differs from traditional astronomy instrument control architectures.
For more information on the ASCOM Initiative, see the About ASCOM section.
Required for all drivers. After installing, please apply the Platform 5.5 Update!
Windows 2000 users only, install the ASCOM Platform 4.1. You will have very old drivers and you'll be unable to update most of them.
Download and install the driver(s) for your astronomy instruments and devices. You'll also find plug-ins for TheSky and other useful tools and components here for download.
