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Product Description:
ScopeDriver is an enhanced software interface for your astronomical telescope. It allows you to connect a Macintosh to an Autostar, LX-200, Losmandy Gemini, or compatible telescope.
This program expands the capabilities of your instrument -- adding hundreds of features, including: an intuitive means of finding tens of thousands of objects by common name, Bayer/Flamsteed designation, and constellation; Area Search; an Observing Log; multiple/sharable Observing Lists; entry of orbiting bodies; time synchronization; and much more.
What's new in this version:
- Sidereal time is now reported even if your telescope model does not support it.
- Preliminary support for Temma slews.
- Test Mode now reports local time, sidereal time, and UTC -- calculated based on the last time and location data gathered from a telescope. In test mode, times are calculated using saved telescope offsets, or by values entered in the Date and Time Window and the Site Information Window during test mode.
- Communications Window now logs some commands in Test Mode.
- Fixed spurious beep that would occur when opening the observing log, if no entries had ever been saved.
Operating System Requirements:
This product is designed to run on the following operating systems:
- Mac OS Classic
Additional Requirements:
- Autostar with RS-232 serial port, or
- LX200-compatible telescope, or
- Gemini telescope controller
- Mac OS 8.5 - 9.2.2
- Available serial port
Screenshots:
 The Find Object Window accesses ScopeDriver's and user databases |
Sample Observing List |
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Download Links:
Download ScopeDriver Classic Version 2.3.1a2 (File Size: 2.8M)
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Download ScopeDriver Classic Current Version (File Size: 7.1M)
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| Ease of Use: | (1.0) |
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Pay $30 for Beta software .... I Don't Think So.. - Version: 2.3.1a2, 2/26/2005 11:25AM PST
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CounterPoint
ScopeDriver is free to try for 30 days (beta or release), and if you need more time, you can request a demo extension from within ScopeDriver.
I customarily make the betas available to everyone, and if you're having crashes, I wish you'd let me know.
-- Steve