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Astrophotography Software for Digital SLR camera users!

With the new breed of Digital SLR cameras, astrophotography is now within reach of many amateur astronomers. As DSLRs are not able to take single long exposures, software like MaxDSLR can be used to extend the exposure time and to stack multiple images to create great astrophotos.

High quality imaging with DSLRs requires proper focus, good guiding, capturing RAW frames, and stacking multiple long exposures. MaxDSLR makes this easy. MaxDSLR provides a complete set of focus tools, including a rapid image download mode, 3-D focus graph, and measurement of peak, FWHM, and Half Flux Diameter. In addition, with suitable digitally-controlled focuser, MaxDSLR can provide full autofocus.

Connect a webcam, DSI, LPI, or Lumenera camera for use as an autoguider or use it as the main camera for deep sky or planetary imaging.

For optimum RAW frame capture, MaxDSLR will directly download raw images from the camera, and save them in FITS format. Raw frames are best because they have higher bit depth, have not been compressed, and have not been debayered (converted to color). This is the optimum format for dark frame and flat field correction, and provides the highest dynamic range.

Sequencing allows you to take multiple frames at different exposures times and different ISO settings. This can be used to optimize detection of both bright and faint objects in the field.

MaxDSLR supports popular shutter control cables, to allow for longer single exposures. Stacking longer individual frames results in lower overall read noise, producing deeper images faster.

What about RAW frames saved on the camera's flash card? No problem! MaxDSLR reads RAW frames from popular DSLR cameras. Once the images have been acquired, MaxDSLR provides a complete suite of processing tools. Batch process all your exposures for dark and flat calibration, conversion to color (Debayer), etc. Then stack the images with optional auto-alignment to produce the highest quality image.

MaxDSLR is designed for digital camera users who want to take high quality images of celestial objects. MaxDSLR provides a number of important benefits to DSLR users:

• Support for Canon, Nikon, Olympus, webcams, DSI, LPI, and Lumenera cameras
• Reads DSLR RAW formats
• Built-in focus tools
• Built-in autoguiding
• Longer individual exposures via add-on shutter control cable
• Automatic exposure sequences
• Raw frame processing for optimum dark subtraction and high bit depth
• Automatic stacking with auto-alignment
• Advanced processing feature such as Range Restricted Filters^TM, color balance and saturation adjustment

MaxDSLR features include:

• Reads popular DSLR RAW formats
• Kernel Filters
• Unsharp Mask
• Digital Development Processing (DDP)
• Adjust color balance and saturation
• Export to FITS, TIFF, JPEG, PNG, or BMP format
• New buffering technology handles high bit depth, multi-megapixel images

Starry Night 6.0.6 will run on a Windows Vista computer provided the latest graphics card Vista drivers supporting hardware-accelerated OpenGL are installed. At present, there are Vista drivers that do not support hardware-accelerated OpenGL to the extent required by Starry Night. This is beyond our control.

The following graphics cards have been successfully tested against Starry Night on Windows Vista using latest manufacturer's drivers:

nVidia: 7600, 7300, 6600, 6200
ATI: X1900, X1650, X1550, X1300, X800 (non-AGP only)

By no means is this an exhaustive list. We are certain there are many more cards that will work and we will add more cards to this list as we are able to fully test them.

**Please note that Diffraction Limited, publisher of MaxIm DL/CCD, does not accept returns after the permanent license has been issued. You have 30 days to determine whether the software meets your needs before registering for the permanent license.

For technical support, visit http://cyanogen.com/support/index.htm

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