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Software Bisque announces its long-anticipated Camera Add On to TheSkyX Professional Edition ($199). The component allows users to control two cameras simultaneously, one for imaging and the other for autoguiding on PC or Mac platforms. This includes all Canon, SBIG, QSI, and Orion cameras, as well as certain video cameras. Sequence your entire night of imaging and reduce your data with flat frames, darks, and biases all within the program. TheSkyX Pro Camera Add On also enables you to perform automated focus with supported electric focusers, and can also control a host of additional ASCOM-compatible products. See the manufacturer’s website for additional details.
TheSkyX is a very powerful and popular astronomical telescope support software that contains an array of tools for advanced or amateur astronomers. It can simulate the starry sky in real time, adjust the time or location at random to see different sky scenes. Plus, it is capable of simulating all sorts of motion of the celestial bodies, as well as the astronomical wonders such like solar. TheSkyX Serious Astronomer Edition (Mac OS X or Windows) is a major update to TheSky6 Serious Astronomer Edition for Windows. Retooled from the ground.
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TPoint is computersoftware that implements a mathematical model of conditions leading to errors in telescope pointing and tracking. The model can then be used in a telescope control system to correct the pointing and tracking. Such errors are typically caused by mechanical or structuraldefects. For example, TPoint can analyze and compensate for systematic errors such as polar misalignment, mechanical and optical non-orthogonality, lack of roundness in telescope mounting drive gears, as well as for flexure of the mounting caused by gravity.
TPoint is in use on the majority of professional telescopes worldwide, including the Anglo-Australian Observatory, Keck Observatory, Gemini Observatory, and many others. Sakala devatha ashtothram pdf. It has significantly improved the performance and efficiency of telescope operation and has had an especially strong impact on the development of automated and robotic telescopes.
TPoint is also widely used by amateur astronomers. Software Bisque distributes TPoint for Mac OS and Windows as an add-on to TheSkyX Serious Astronomer Edition and TheSkyX Professional; this version is used to improve the pointing on amateur telescopes.[1]
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TPoint was invented and developed by Patrick Wallace.[1] It grew out of work he and John Straede performedat the Anglo-Australian Telescope (AAT) between 1974 and 1980using Interdata 70 computers. In the early 1980s, it was ported to the Digital Equipment CorporationVAX running underthe VMS operating system and between 1990 and 1992 was also ported to run on the PC/MS-DOS platform as wellas various UNIX platforms. A TPoint add-on is available for TheSkyX Serious Astronomer Edition and TheSkyX Professional Edition from Software Bisque, and it runs under both Macintosh OS and Microsoft Windows. [2]
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- ^ abdi Cicco, Dennis (July 2012). 'The Paramount MX'. Sky & Telescope. 124 (1): 64–67. ISSN0037-6604.
- ^Wallace, Patrick (9 Dec 1994). 'TPOINT - Telescope Pointing Analysis System (v4.4)'(PDF). Starlink Project. DRAL/ Rutherford Appleton Laboratory. pp. 27 28. Archived from the original(PDF) on 11 June 2010. Retrieved 2013-01-02.