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Resources currently sorted by: Date (New downloads listed first) Foucault Test - Mirror Surface Profiler [BROKEN] | | Description: | Intended for the private use of Amateur Telescope Makers who grind, polish and figure their own precision optics, and who use the Foucault Knife Edge Test in the process, as a way of gauging the surface's conformity to a desired concave shape - usually a parabaloid or a spheroid. | | | Version: | 0.5 | | Filesize: | 460.50 Kb | | Added on: | 29-Dec-2005 | | Downloads: | 429 | | Category: | Windows / Telescopes - Guiding, ATM & Optics | | Homepage | Rate resource | Details | |
Foucault  | | Description: | Foucault is an Amateur Telescope Making freeware for controlling telescope mirrors with the measures from the foucaultmeter.
It can also calculate the parameters of the Couder Screen using several criteria.
For each set of measures, it gives the shape of the mirror and the zones to be polished. All the measures are saved and can be seen at any time in a worksheet to find the good way to polish...
| | | Version: | 1.41 | | Filesize: | 210.00 Kb | | Added on: | 29-Dec-2005 | | Downloads: | 640 | | Category: | Windows / Telescopes - Guiding, ATM & Optics | | Homepage | Rate resource | Details | |
| ATMOS | | Description: | ATMOS stands for «Amateur Telescope Maker Optical design and analysis Software». A program for analyzing optical centered systems up to 20 surfaces (spheres, conics and High-Orders) and for fast designing of about 30 telescope configurations. The program is very simple to use and performs many analysis as: Polichromatic SpotDiagrams (up to 30000 rays), Spherical Aberration and Coma, Field Curvature, Distorsion, Lateral Color Chromatic Focal Shift Plot, Paraxial Calculation, 2D layout, Point Spread Function, Encircled Energy Plot, Wavefront surface map, OPD Fans.
This is a fully functional program, but limited up to 3 optical surfaces (except for the sample files). You can design and analyze with this version Newtonian and classical two mirror telescopes .
Comes with 26 sample telescope files, and you can load up and analyze any of them.
| | | Version: | 7.4 | | Filesize: | 2.86 MB | | Added on: | 29-Dec-2005 | | Downloads: | 634 | | Category: | Windows / Telescopes - Guiding, ATM & Optics | | Homepage | Rate resource | Details | |
 ASCOM Plataform | | Description: | Group of drivers for most computerized telescopes, domes and focusers.
They have created a standard for all this Tools of observation. Actually most of the free and non - free software planetariums that allow control a telescope use this software.
A list of supported devices and controllers may be found here:
http://ascom-standards.org/drivers.html
The Ascom Platform project allows the use of «dll» libraries for programmers to use in scripting, under Unix, Mac and Windows.
«ASCOM Initiative Mission Statement (goals)
1. Establish a set of interface standards for scriptable or programmable low level control of astronomical instruments and related devices, and promote the use of these standard drivers from astronomy- related software applications.
2. Provide a freely available set of instrument drivers that implement the standards established in (1). These drivers must be usable apart from any particular application, and directly from Windows Active Script languages and Automation based tools.
3. Promote (but not absolutely require) open-source implementations of the drivers in (2).
4. Promote scriptability of astronomy-related software without standardizing application level interfaces (which would inhibit innovation). ASCOM does provide general requirements for quality and behavior of application scripting interfaces (including drivers), aimed at making end-user script writers' experiences consistent and robust.»
| | | Version: | 4.1 | | Filesize: | 14.31 MB | | Added on: | 29-Dec-2005 | | Downloads: | 869 | | Rating: | 9.0 (1 Vote) | | Category: | Windows / Telescopes - Guiding, ATM & Optics | | Homepage | Rate resource | Details | |
| DiagonalCalc | | Description: | Calculates parameters related to the size and placement of the diagonal mirror of a newtonian telescope. | | | Version: | 1.06 | | Filesize: | 5.63 MB | | Added on: | 19-Aug-2005 | | Downloads: | 511 | | Category: | Windows / Telescopes - Guiding, ATM & Optics | | Homepage | Rate resource | Details | |
| TeleCalc | | Description: | Designed to show you all the calculations of your telescope (magnification, f/ratio, aperture gain, exit pupil, Dawes limit...).
Note: .NET Framework installation required. | | | Version: | 1 | | Filesize: | 168.00 Kb | | Added on: | 19-Aug-2005 | | Downloads: | 770 | | Rating: | 10.0 (1 Vote) | | Category: | Windows / Telescopes - Guiding, ATM & Optics | | Homepage | Rate resource | Details | Comments (1) | |
| RoniSimo | | Description: | RoniSimo is small but powerfull Ronchi Simulator. It comes in nice gray Gnome design. The program produces both single and trough focus ronchigrams. The ronchigrams can be saved under different grapic file formats, includes adobe pdf. Drag and drop of the images is possible to. Finally RoniSimo has the ability to create animated gif's. | | | Version: | 1.0 | | Filesize: | 499.50 Kb | | Added on: | 10-Aug-2005 | | Downloads: | 501 | | Category: | Windows / Telescopes - Guiding, ATM & Optics | | Homepage | Rate resource | Details | |
| Gps Control 2 | | Description: | This program puts a virtual Lx-200 Gps hand controller on the Windows desktop. Emulates most functions of the standard controller and also features a custom graphical focus interface and joystick support.
Features include:
Supports most Autostar 2 functions
Frameless window uses less desktop space
Supports Com ports 1-8
Graphical focus interface
Custom coordinate retrieval and save function
Horizon and user slew limits supported
Joystick support with audio feedback | | | Version: | 5.0k | | Filesize: | 1.92 MB | | Added on: | 04-June-2005 | | Downloads: | 593 | | Category: | Windows / Telescopes - Guiding, ATM & Optics | | Homepage | Rate resource | Details | |
| Opus | | Description: | Software application for designing and evaluating optical systems. The first release of this opus software application was created by greatly cleaning and simplifying the application the author had enhanced and extended over decades on an as-needed basis. This was done purposely to create a reasonably clean, simple, straightforward code base suitable for enhancement and extension by other programmers. Some capabilities were removed in this process - to be re-implemented more cleanly and efficiently.
Opus computes AKA "traces" the path of light "rays" from an "entrance-aperture" or "object-plane", through a series of "optical surfaces" (lens-surfaces, mirror-surfaces, vignette-stops) to a focal surface, where opus computes image error "aberrations" at several "field-angles" and colors AKA "wavelengths".
Opus executes command lines entered by keyboard or read from a "macro" file. These commands tell opus to change optical-system properties, compute the optical-system ray-trace, evaluate images & aberrations, and present general/design/aberration/image information as text (formatted columns of numbers and text) or as graphics (colorful spots, curves, lines and images drawn in on-screen windows). | | | Filesize: | 0 bytes | | Added on: | 23-Jan-2005 | | Downloads: | 387 | | Category: | Windows / Telescopes - Guiding, ATM & Optics | | Homepage | Rate resource | Details | |
| Network Telescope Control | | Description: | NTC can be used in two modes; local mode and network mode. In local mode NTC can be used to control a telescope that is connected to a host computer. In network mode NTC allows a client computer to control a telescope remotely over a network, either a LAN or the Internet.
At present NTC can only slew a telescope and control the focus. We are developing GOTO functions that will allow you to select a visible object and GOTO it. We are also developing a video streaming control that will allow remote viewing of a camera attached to a telescope. | | | Version: | 0.1.2 | | Filesize: | 823 bytes | | Added on: | 27-Dec-2004 | | Downloads: | 762 | | Category: | Windows / Telescopes - Guiding, ATM & Optics | | Homepage | Rate resource | Details | |
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