Welcome to WinTICS-24! WinTICS-24 (Telescope Integrated Control System) is a versatile telescope control front end. It is designed to serve as a graphical user front end to text-based telescope control programs such as DFM TCS.

Although the original version of WinTICS-24 was coded to work with DFM TCS-486, WinTICS could easily be modified to work with any telescope control system that is capable of remote control via a serial port.

In addition to the telescope control functions, WinTICS-24 also contains a trig library (trig.bas) and an astronomical formulas library (astro.bas) based on Astronomical Algorithms by Jean Meeus, and several utility programs to assist the observer during their observing run.

WinTICS-24 evolved from a Hypercardprogram of the same name originally written by Steve Ratcliff of Middlebury College and extensively modified by R. Lee Hawkins and Paul Vader.

Have a look at the WinTICS-24 User Interface

System Requirements for WinTICS-24:

CPU: 80486 or better.

Video: 1024 x 768 x 256 colors or better.

OS: Windows 95 or Windows NT v3.51 or later.

Disk Space:

Memory:

Note: Some minor changes to DFM TCS-486 are necessary before WinTICS can be used.

Notes on porting WinTICS-24 to work with non-DFM telescope control systems.

Availability:

NOTE: Unlike Version 1.0 of WinTICS, Version 2.0 is a 32-bit only version, so you will have to be running either Windows 95 or Windows NT to be able to use WinTICS.

Cost:

Exact costs have not been determined at this time.

For more information on WinTICS-24, contact R. Lee Hawkins at:

Email: lhawkins@brashear.phys.appstate.edu

Voice: 828-262-7331

To Do list for future versions of WinTICS-24

Software necessary for doing development of WinTICS-24 (note, however, that I do not plan to release the sources to others, unless a convincing argument can be made).

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