Free Downloads: Telescope Information
The WorldWide Telescope (WWT) is a Web 2.
The WorldWide Telescope (WWT) is a Web 2.0 visualization software environment that enables your computer to function as a virtual Telescope?bringing together imagery from the best ground and space-based telescopes in the world for a seamless exploration o
Category: Home & Education / Mathematics
Publisher: worldwidetelescope.org, License: Freeware, Price: USD $0.00, File Size: 52.0 MB
Platform: Windows, Mac, Vista
Telescope Eye Goldfish Wallpaper is an interactive and smoothly desktop background which let you click of your mouse to guide Telescope Eye Goldfish fish in any given direction. Telescope Eye Goldfish is a very gracious and beautiful aquarium fish of the goldfish species. The Telescope eye also called demekin or moor is a fancy goldfish with his globe-like eyes is an...
Category: Desktop Enhancements / Misc. Themes
Publisher: digiaquascr, License: Freeware, Price: USD $0.00, File Size: 3.3 MB
Platform: Windows
MaxPoint, it creates a model of your Telescope mount, including any polar axis misalignment, offsets, and mechanical flexure.
Once this is done, MaxPoint automatically corrects your Telescope position to ensure it is always on-target. With MaxPoint, even very low-cost GOTO mounts can routinely achieve a pointing accuracy of 1-2 arc-minutes over the whole sky!
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Category: Home & Education / Miscellaneous
Publisher: Diffraction Limited, License: Shareware, Price: USD $150.00, File Size: 3.2 MB
Platform: Windows
StellariumScope is a FREE add-on to Stellarium (an excellent, free, open-source planetarium program) which enables you to control your Telescope.
Features:
- Controls a Telescope using Stellarium and the ASCOM Telescope drivers.
- Provides the ability to both "Sync" and "Slew" the Telescope.
Category: Internet / Misc. Plugins
Publisher: ByteArts, License: Freeware, Price: USD $0.00, File Size: 748.5 KB
Platform: Windows
Installs a driver for Telescope control systems that speak the Merlin Controls Astronomy Command Language. Please note that there is a specific driver for the COMSOFT PC-TCS control system below. Version 6.0.1 corrects a COM port setup bug, and has sources for building under Platform 6.
Category: Home & Education / Science
Publisher: Chris Rowland, License: Freeware, Price: USD $0.00, File Size: 449.6 KB
Platform: Windows
Install a driver for the original Meade LX200 ("classic") Telescope mounts (including the 16"), as well as Meade telescopes that use the Autostar I (#494, #495 and #497) controllers, such as the ETX and DS series. This driver provides both Telescope and focuser interfaces each of which may be used by separate programs. It also has support for an improved form of...
Category: Home & Education / Miscellaneous
Publisher: The ASCOM Initiative, License: Freeware, Price: USD $0.00, File Size: 478.1 KB
Platform: Windows
COM2TCP and TCP2COM are applications that allow you to tunnel a serial connection over a network.
COM2TCP and TCP2COM are applications that allow you to tunnel a serial connection over a network. Although they were designed for remote Telescope operation, they can be used to remotely control virtually any serial device.
The diagram below shows TCP2COM being run on computer and connected to a Telescope hand controller. COM2TCP is run on another computer -- on the other...
Category: Internet / Misc. Plugins
Publisher: AstroGeeks, License: Shareware, Price: USD $39.00, File Size: 4.3 MB
Platform: Windows
This free software has been designed to be used by observers to show the following data about your Scope and CCD set-up:
- Telescope Focal length
- Telescope Dawes Limit
- Eyepiece magnification
- Eyepiece real Field of View
- CCD Arc seconds per pixel
- CCD field of view
Category: Home & Education / Astrology & Numerology
Publisher: AstroSoft, License: Freeware, Price: USD $0.00, File Size: 2.7 MB
Platform: Windows
POTH is an incredibly useful tool for both testing and routine observing.
POTH is an incredibly useful tool for both testing and routine observing. It started out as a "plain old Telescope handset" (hence the acronym), but it has grown a lot since then.
POTH has many useful features such as traffic logging and its own set of "handset" controls for the Telescope, dome, and focuser. There is a detailed help file for POTH,...
Category: Utilities / Misc. Utilities
Publisher: Jon Brewster, License: Freeware, Price: USD $0.00, File Size: 23.6 MB
Platform: Windows
From web to desktop to full dome planetarium, WorldWide Telescope (WWT) enables you to explore the universe, bringing together imagery from the best ground and space-based telescopes in the world and combining it with 3D navigation. Experience narrated guided tours from astronomers and educators featuring interesting places in the sky. You can research and import your own data and...
Category: Home & Education / Teaching Tools
Publisher: Microsoft Research, License: Freeware, Price: USD $0.00, File Size: 60.7 MB
Platform: Windows
FocusStar Pro includes a full-function Windows Vista or XP control program with ASCOM drivers.
FocusStar Pro includes a full-function Windows Vista or XP control program with ASCOM drivers. The motor is mounted to the Telescope with a bracket. The FocusStar Pro Controller -a digital Telescope focuser - includes a controller with a backlit graphic LCD for status and control menus display, dual stepper motor ouputs, and optional temperature sensor. It can be used standalone -...
Category: Home & Education / Astrology & Numerology
Publisher: Cercis Astro, Inc., License: Shareware, Price: USD $0.00, File Size: 0
Platform: Windows
Simple Focus is a small tool to easy your job in focusing your telescope.
Simple Focus is a small tool to easy your job in focusing your Telescope. Whatever you need to adjust your focus between different eye-pieces or for digital astrophotography, this tool will save you valuable time. It will help you fine tune your focus and get sharp images.
Category: Home & Education / Astrology & Numerology
Publisher: Larry Lart, License: Freeware, Price: USD $0.00, File Size: 600.9 KB
Platform: Windows
Installs a driver for the original Meade LX200 ("classic") Telescope mounts (including the 16"), as well as Meade telescopes that use the Autostar I (#495 and #497) controllers, such as the ETX and DS series. This driver provides both Telescope and focuser interfaces each of which may be used by separate programs.
Category: Utilities / Misc. Utilities
Publisher: The ASCOM Initiative, License: Freeware, Price: USD $0.00, File Size: 478.1 KB
Platform: Windows
Autostar Suite Software is your complete digital astronomy solution for your Meade telescope!
Autostar Suite Software is your complete digital astronomy solution for your Meade Telescope!
Designed to be the ultimate platform for remote digital astronomy with your Meade LX200GPS, Autostar Suite contains tools for dome controls, weather sensors, and other functions required for this purpose.
Category: Home & Education / Astrology & Numerology
Publisher: Meade Instruments Corporation, License: Freeware, Price: USD $0.00, File Size: 214.6 MB
Platform: Windows
Peer into the farthest reaches of deep space with Deep Space: Above and Beyond.
Peer into the farthest reaches of deep space with Deep Space: Above and Beyond. Featuring breathtaking images from the Hubble Space Telescope, a beautiful, inspiring original score composed exclusively for this screensaver, and new screensaver technology that is above and beyond ordinary slideshow screensavers you've seen before! Everything in this screensaver is real. There are no...
Category: Desktop Enhancements / Screensavers
Publisher: Above and Beyond Software, License: Shareware, Price: USD $14.49, File Size: 10.9 MB
Platform: Windows
Shareware
An instant trip to the Moon and back is now possible. View the Moon as if you had the largest Telescope on Earth. Enjoy a fascinating close-up view of our satellite. This screensaver delivers the Moon in full 3D with the finest detail. You can see even the tiniest craters made by collisions of meteors and comets on the lunar surface. Open new ways of studying astronomy by observing this...
Category: Desktop Enhancements / Screensavers
Publisher: Rixane Interactive, License: Shareware, Price: USD $14.95, File Size: 11.4 MB
Platform: Windows
A photo slideshow screen saver with beautiful photos of deep space objects by the Hubble Telescope.
A photo slideshow screen saver with beautiful photos of deep space objects by the Hubble Telescope. All images are scaled for 800x600 (a 1024x768 version is also available, see our web site). Other screen saver features include transition effects, black and white mode, password use, and extract photos as wallpaper, including built-in wallpaper cycling every hour or every day. This Lite...
Category: Desktop Enhancements / Screensavers
Publisher: Cottonwood Software, License: Shareware, Price: USD $9.95, File Size: 1.0 MB
Platform: Windows
AstroDigital.Net is a free Telescope, eyepiece and CCD calculator for astrophotographic and visual work.
It computes the most important properties of your Telescope system for a given eyepiece and camera combination, e.g: Magnification - Field Of View - Sensitivity - Exit pupil - Critical Focus Zone - CCD characteristics - Optimal flat value - Min. oversampling -...
Category: Home & Education / Miscellaneous
Publisher: Panagiotis Xipteras, License: Freeware, Price: USD $0.00, File Size: 1.2 MB
Platform: Windows
Quick Fringe is used to extract quantitative wavefront accuracy measurements from a laser interferogram. Interfacing with optical interferometers via a video camera and frame grabber, Quick Fringe produces accurate test reports with a minimum of effort.
Renowned for its ease of use, Quick Fringe has been used for applications ranging from Telescope manufacturing to...
Category: Multimedia & Design / Multimedia App's
Publisher: Diffraction Limited, License: Shareware, Price: USD $1500.00, File Size: 11.6 MB
Platform: Windows
If you thought the earth was beautiful, you'll find what's out there in the great beyond even better. Hubble's Hot 100 is a series of 5 screensavers each showing 20 of the top 100 images taken from the Hubble Telescope. These absolutely breathtaking images are some of the most beautiful space photography ever taken. Slip away and imagine yourself charting the galaxy without ever leaving...
Category: Desktop Enhancements / Screensavers
Publisher: RateMyScreensaver, License: Freeware, Price: USD $0.00, File Size: 3.0 MB
Platform: Windows
If you thought the earth was beautiful, you'll find what's out there in the great beyond even better. Hubble's Hot 100 is a series of 5 screensavers each showing 20 of the top 100 images taken from the Hubble Telescope. These absolutely breathtaking images are some of the most beautiful space photography ever taken. Slip away and imagine yourself charting the galaxy without ever leaving...
Category: Desktop Enhancements / Screensavers
Publisher: RateMyScreensaver, License: Freeware, Price: USD $0.00, File Size: 3.0 MB
Platform: Windows
If you thought the earth was beautiful, you'll find what's out there in the great beyond even better. Hubble's Hot 100 is a series of 5 screensavers each showing 20 of the top 100 images taken from the Hubble Telescope. These absolutely breathtaking images are some of the most beautiful space photography ever taken. Slip away and imagine yourself charting the galaxy without ever leaving...
Category: Desktop Enhancements / Screensavers
Publisher: RateMyScreensaver, License: Freeware, Price: USD $0.00, File Size: 2.9 MB
Platform: Windows
If you thought the earth was beautiful, you'll find what's out there in the great beyond even better. Hubble's Hot 100 is a series of 5 screensavers each showing 20 of the top 100 images taken from the Hubble Telescope. These absolutely breathtaking images are some of the most beautiful space photography ever taken. Slip away and imagine yourself charting the galaxy without ever leaving...
Category: Desktop Enhancements / Screensavers
Publisher: RateMyScreensaver, License: Freeware, Price: USD $0.00, File Size: 3.4 MB
Platform: Windows
The Sun's and Earth's rotation axes are both tilted with respect to the ecliptic, the plane of the Earth's orbit around the Sun. This causes the Sun's poles to appear to point in different directions throughout the year as seen in an equatorially mounted Telescope. Use an altazimuth mount or camera tripod and things get more complicated! TiltingSun is freeware which...
Category: Home & Education / Astrology & Numerology
Publisher: atoptics, License: Freeware, Price: USD $0.00, File Size: 2.1 MB
Platform: Windows
33 photos taken from the Hubble Space Telescope.
33 photos taken from the Hubble Space Telescope. Use this versatile screen-saver engine which rotates 33 photos of colorful deep space stars, nebulas, and galaxies and an optional soundtrack of MIDI-based tunes. Features include your choice of up to 23 transition effects, Microsoft Plus! support, the option to show images full-screen or at original size, plus the ability to set the delay...
Category: Desktop Enhancements / Screensavers
Publisher: NexusMedia, License: Shareware, Price: USD $10.00, File Size: 2.5 MB
Platform: Windows
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