ASCOM Intelliscope Driver Help File, February 2008

This file contains preliminary information about the latest Imaginova driver for Orion Intelliscope.
This driver should work with the following Digital Setting Circles (DSC): Celestron Advanced Astromaster,
David Chandler Co. Deep Space Navigator, Discovery Digital Setting Circles, Grecner Navigator,
JMI NGCMAX, Lumicon Sky Vector, Mountain Instruments Star Pilot, Orion Sky Wizard 3, and
TeleVue Sky Tour, as well as BBox, Ouranos, MicroGuider III and V, and other similar units.

The 4.1 ASCOM Platform is no longer available from the main ASCOM website.
If you already have the 4.1 platform, you may follow these instructions to update your Intelliscope driver.
If you do not already have the 4.1 platform, please follow the instructions for installing under ASCOM 5 platform.

After installing the 4.1 platform, rename your current copy of Intelliscope.dll, located in
\Program Files\Common Files\ASCOM\Telescope
and copy the one you have downloaded from one of theses links into the same directory:
Intelliscope driver download as dll
Intelliscope driver download as zip

Be sure to enter your Comm port and encoder resolutions under driver properties setup screen.

You do not need to perform any DSC stand-alone alignment steps with your DSC hardware,
because the DSC only sends raw encoder values to your serial port. You can skip the
alignment star process on the DSC, and just follow the steps from the ASCOM driver.

On some DSC, you may need to set the vertical or horizontal position of the telescope
and use the enter key on your DSC so that encoder readings will be sent for both
Alt/Dec and Az/RA. If your tracking is bad, check your encoder values and try
the driver setup screen option to reverse RA/AZ axis.

Please let me know if the driver works for you, because we are close to
releasing a new version for the next ASCOM platform release.

Thanks, Peter Eschman