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Solar Eclipse Maestro 1.7.5
Controls up to 4 USB or Firewire connected cameras during an eclipse. Free
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Xavier M. Jubier
Solar Eclipse Maestro is the most versatile and feature-rich application for solar eclipses. It can handle any solar eclipse, provide you Baily’s beads preview and animation, simulate an all-sky view or weather statistics, and a lot more. To help you enjoy the event, it can controls up to 4 USB or Firewire connected cameras during an eclipse so that you can be free to concentrate on observing the event visually. Actions can be preprogrammed according to a script. Observer position (latitude and longitude coordinates, altitude) is used to calculate local circumstances so that camera
What's New
Version 1.7.5:
- Improved Mac OS X 10.7 Lion compatibility
- Minor improvement on the sunrise/sunset computations
- Added an indicator to mark the geographic North and South Poles
- Bug fix for GPS units that were causing an application crash in recent releases
- Better refresh of the window displaying the GPS satellites position
- Fixed a crash that could occasionally occur while zooming on the eclipse map
- Improved E-Flight module used to plan and execute flights to intercept the umbral shadow cone
- Minor user interface tweaks
- Miscellaneous bug fixes and enhancements
Version 1.7.5:
- Improved Mac OS X 10.7 Lion compatibility
- Minor improvement on the sunrise/sunset computations
- Added an indicator to mark the geographic North and South Poles
- Bug fix for GPS units that were causing an application crash in recent releases
- Better refresh of the window displaying the GPS satellites position
- Fixed a crash that could more...
Requirements
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.4.9 or later
PPC / Intel, Mac OS X 10.4.9 or later
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Solar Eclipse Maestro is the most versatile and feature-rich application for solar eclipses. It can handle any solar eclipse, provide you Baily’s beads preview and animation, simulate an all-sky view or weather statistics, and a lot more. To help you enjoy the event, it can controls up to 4 USB or Firewire connected cameras during an eclipse so that you can be free to concentrate on observing the event visually. Actions can be preprogrammed according to a script. Observer position (latitude and longitude coordinates, altitude) is used to calculate local circumstances so that camera actions can be referenced to specific eclipse events. Refraction, lunar limb profile effects, and deltaT correction supported. Sun/Moon diagram and large event countdown display. Eclipse color coded map with mouse-over geographic cursor coordinates and eclipse duration info to indicate where to move to increase your eclipse duration. A maximum eclipse diagram at the mouse-over location can also be displayed.
- Live View (Lv) mode support to allow easier focussing and exposure compensation.
- Night vision mode to preserve your dark adaptation for totality.
- Exposure Calculator to find the best exposure for each eclipse event.
- Support for all Nikon and Canon DSLRs.
- Baily's beads simulator
- Sky chart.
- PDF exports.
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Seriously though it looks like a pretty neat app.
Zozomike reviewed on 12 Oct 2009
The PDF export is great to show the eclipse map to friends.