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The Sky Imaging Edition: Part 2

23 May 2022 Astronomy Now

comNik Szymanek recently spent three consecutive nights testing the capabilities of Software Bisque’s new edition of The Sky, namely The Sky Imaging Edition. On night two, he finds out how well it autofocuses and autoguides his telescope.

Download NASA’s Asteroid Data Hunter software and help save the planet

16 March 2015 Astronomy Now

New free software for home computers based on an algorithm created through NASA’s Asteroid Grand Challenge has the potential to increase the number of new asteroid discoveries by enabling amateur astronomers to analyse their own images.

Mosaic-making: Asimoplan software

23 October 2014 Steve Ringwood

Visual observers now have the benefit of wide-field eyepieces but astro-imagers are somewhat limited to the size of their CCD chip and when it comes to imaging large objects, they must take several images and build a mosaic.