Visit the ASCOM-Talk Users Group
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 Windows and now Linux and MacOS computers. The diagram below shows how ASCOM differs from traditional astronomy instrument control architectures. This architecture applies to both Windows/COM and cross-platform Alpaca technologies.
For more information on the ASCOM Initiative, see the About ASCOM section.
Platform 6.5 Release Notes
Platform 6.5 Help (online)
Required for all drivers (see notes for Windows 7). This will install the Platform on a new PC, and it will also upgrade earlier installations of Platform versions 4, 5, and 6.
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.