This page last modified 2003 May 17
ATM Programs
Please be aware that some of these are programs are shareware and
require a payment to the author if you use them beyond the trial period.
There is a separate list of general astronomy software
here.
- altaz.exe
488261 bytes, DOS
Mel Bartels' program for controlling
a dobsonian telescope from a PC, using stepper motors. Contains construction
details, circuit diagrams, images. Self-extracting archive.
- cell.zip 29133 bytes, DOS
David
Chandler's flotation cell design program -- 9-, 18- or 27-points
- foucault.zip
67548 bytes, DOS
Mirror testing based on Richard Berry's
method.
- Gratings.zip 64kb
Win3.x or Win95
Generates a diffraction grating for the "big
end", which you print out on a transparency. One of several bits of useful
software from COAA.
- *Gratings.cdr
337617 bytes
A Corel Draw ® file which
generates Ronchi Screens. Instructions are in the
accompanying
text file This file is courtesy of Barry Pemberton of
Orion Optics.
- gsum.zip 50096 bytes, DOS
Simple
raytrace program for achromatic doublets. Self-extracting archive.
- irt52.zip 298112 bytes, Win
3.1and above
Comprehensive raytrace program.
- mil-lac.zip 16846 bytes
Spreadsheet
for Millies-Lacroix reduction of the Foucault test -- Microsoft Works and
Lotus123 format.
- newt20.zip 75271 bytes, DOS
or newt25.zip
220kb, Win3.1
Newtonian telescope CAD (Computer Aided
Design) program. It uses a GUI (Graphical User Interface) to design a
Newtonian telescope, and allows you to modify all the parameters. Capabilities
include:
- Display a side view of a newtonian telescope.
- Modify all parameters like mirror diameter, diagonal minor axis,
focuser height, focuser inside diameter, tube inside diameter and thickness, and
many more.
- Use inches, centimeters, or millimeters as the
unit of measure.
- Calculate baffle size and placement.
- Calculate diagonal offset.
- Calculate fields of 100%
and 75% illumination.
- optics.zip
8192 bytes
A variety of formulae, etc, of
interest to the ATM.
- sixtests.zip 46 kb, DOS
SIXTESTS
uses a series of test measurements to compute the mirror profile errors, several
mirror evaluation parameters, and the resultant diffraction pattern. The author
is
Jim Burrows, who writes: "Comments,
criticisms, and cries for help (if needed) welcome."
- springcw.zip
28k bytes
This public domain file contains the generic
BASIC source code and the compiled EXE file for Jim Phillips' program
SPRINGCW.BAS, which calculates spacings for a telescope spring counterweight
system as described in Sky and Telescope, November 1999, pp 130-134.
- tex.zip 64556 bytes, DOS
Larry
Phillips' and Dale Eason's program for Foucault test reduction based on Jean
Texereau's method. For the latest versions of this software, including Windows,
Linux and Solaris versions, see
Michael Lindner's web site
- vign9502.zip 39062 bytes,
DOS
Gerald Pearson's program for determination of vignetting in
Newtonian type telescopes.
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