Sky simulator for Ascom & Alpaca

Sky Simulator for ASCOM and Alpaca is a software program designed to simulate an astronomical camera mounted on a computer-controlled telescope. The camera displays images of the night sky based on the telescope pointing-at position and is affected by exposure time and focuser position. The images can be created artificially or using the online deep sky survey.

To use the Sky Simulator, select the camera "Sky Simulator" and a mount such as "Telescope Simulator for .NET" in your image acquisition program. The simulator program will then feed the camera with simulated images as if the camera is imaging the sky.

For ASCOM mode, the image location in the "Sky Simulator" program and camera simulator should be set to the same location: documents\image.png.

This simulator is a useful tool for testing the focuser routine, astrometric solving, and test sequences. Star and deep sky database are included.

Questions, problems, suggest, visit the forum. Ascom installation required.