OpenAstroLink

DOCUMENTATION

Choose your path.

OAL publishes separate entry points for astronomers, core contributors, driver authors and third-party software developers.

USERS

Astronomers & operators

Setup, Live View, mount, autofocus, scheduler, data, safety and troubleshooting.

OAL CORE

OpenAstroLink developers

Architecture, invariants, repository layers, operations, testing and qualification discipline.

INTEGRATION

Third-party applications

Discovery, capabilities, operations, events, WebRTC/OALV, versioning and the security boundary.

DRIVER SDK

Hardware driver authors

Native driver ABI v2, manifests, capabilities, lifecycle, frames, cancellation and conformance direction.

Protocol references