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Grant Privett
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Hmm. I shall have a look at that. Python is very easy so its an attractive option. Wonder if I should stick with ASCOM rather than Alpaca for simplicity but worried anything I do might become redundant in a few years if they are moving away from COM.

Oh well, no excuse then but to use github for the first time and try Visual Studio – which I downloaded years ago and got rid of fairly quickly after I tried to convert a GUI intensive VB6 program to .NET. It wasn’t a happy experience.

Truth be told, a large chunk of my last 10 years has been spent developing software for image processing pretty much in a team of 1. I wrote IDL (or later Python) and its run from command line. My understanding of the ASCOM/Alpaca/Github universe is wafer thin… 🙂

Looks like one of my old laptops is about to be resurrected for this. Be warned, there may be immoderate language…

Does anyone know if theres a latency issue with using Python rather than another language?