Skip to main content

Python interface for Celestron Nexstar telescopes

Project description

Nexstar Python API

This code follows the NexStar Communication Protocol as described in NexStarCommunicationProtocolV1.2.pdf

This latest version of this code is located at https://github.com/circuitqed/nexstar

This code is forked from https://github.com/sidneycadot/nexstar

The main class is NexstarHandController and supports the following methods:

  • getAlignmentComplete
  • getDeviceVersion
  • getGotoInProgress
  • getLocation
  • getModel
  • getPosition
  • getTime
  • getTrackingMode
  • getVersion
  • gotoPosition
  • passthrough
  • setLocation
  • setTime
  • setTrackingMode
  • slew_fixed
  • slew_variable

Project details


Download files

Download the file for your platform. If you're not sure which to choose, learn more about installing packages.

Source Distribution

nexstar-0.0.5.tar.gz (7.4 kB view details)

Uploaded Source

File details

Details for the file nexstar-0.0.5.tar.gz.

File metadata

  • Download URL: nexstar-0.0.5.tar.gz
  • Upload date:
  • Size: 7.4 kB
  • Tags: Source
  • Uploaded using Trusted Publishing? No
  • Uploaded via: twine/3.4.1 importlib_metadata/4.5.0 pkginfo/1.5.0.1 requests/2.24.0 requests-toolbelt/0.9.1 tqdm/4.47.0 CPython/3.8.3

File hashes

Hashes for nexstar-0.0.5.tar.gz
Algorithm Hash digest
SHA256 00e6891e6c25baecdaf46e6356bacff7fa7667436902f89c51c29d2c3fe15232
MD5 3f80b63cf13bf08d871f5c657c9a0201
BLAKE2b-256 83236b20af4a061f01f8e8e0df7d30302e96bc39ff85317d8da4d367cb2dcd23

See more details on using hashes here.

Supported by

AWS AWS Cloud computing and Security Sponsor Datadog Datadog Monitoring Fastly Fastly CDN Google Google Download Analytics Microsoft Microsoft PSF Sponsor Pingdom Pingdom Monitoring Sentry Sentry Error logging StatusPage StatusPage Status page