* CCDOps version 5.xx for Windows supports all of SBIG's serial, parallel and USB based cameras (except ST-4 and STV). It also reads and processes STV images. We strongly recommend you start imaging with CCDOps before switching to another imaging package.

* Software Bisque's CCDSoft version 5.xx is Windows software for SBIG serial, parallel and USB based cameras (except STV). It integrates with Software Bisque's other software packages like TheSky™ and Orchestrate.

* STVREMOTE for Windows upports the STV. * <bCCDSHARP for Windows is specialized Lucy-Richardson image processing software for all cameras except the ST-4.

* ImCap for Windows supports the ST-4 imaging functions. ImCap is a freeware package made available with permission of the author.

DSLR Timer is a DSLR interval timer using the parallel port or serial port of your notepad or PC.
It can control series of long exposures of digital cameras as it is needed for astrophotography. You need a special cable to connect the camera's jack for the cable remote control to the computer. A description of such a cable can be found on my homepage.

DSLR-Timer offers the following functions:

• Single shot (Start - Stop). Mainly for testing the correct setup before starting an intervall series. 
• Intervall timer. This is the main feature of this program 
• Exposure time from 1 second to 1 hour per image
• DSLR Timer can consider the time for mirror lock-up, noise reduction and the time which is needed to save the images.
• Pause-Function to interrupt and continue a series of shots.
• Display of the total remaining time for the complete series, including the time for exposure, mirror lock-up, noise reduction and save.
• Display of the time of day, when the series will be finished. So you can easily go for a coffee and come back in time.
• Camera control via parallel port. You can use LPT1 to LPT3 or any port address. This is very important for the usage of PCMCIA cardbus cards..
• You can specify, which PIN of the parallel port is used to control the camera. Only the one bit which corresponds to this PIN will be changed. The other PINs can be used by other programs. So you can control a webcam with long exposure via the same parallel port at the same time

DS9 is a stand-alone application. It requires no installation or support files. Versions of DS9 currently exist for Sun Solaris, Sun Solaris64, Linux, LinuxPPC, Windows NT/2000/XP, and MacOSX (darwin). All versions and platforms support a consistent set of GUI and functional capabilities.

DS9 supports advanced features such as multiple frame buffers, mosaic images, tiling, blinking, geometric markers, colormap manipulation, scaling, arbitrary zoom, rotation, pan, and a variety of coordinate systems. DS9 also supports FTP and HTTP access.

The GUI for DS9 is user configurable. GUI elements such as the coordinate display, panner, magnifier, horizontal and vertical graphs, button bar, and colorbar can be configured via menus or the command line.

Key features:

• Completely automatic mode available
• Also supports fine-tuning of blooms visually if desired
• Operates on one image, a portion of an image, or on all open images
• Optimized for the kinds of blooms you deal with every day, from small to large, with all kinds of cameras
• Options for improving roundness of bloomed stars
• Supports multiple iterations on each image
• Variable smoothing of bloom edges
• Auto-detect of blooming limit
• Auto-detect of star limit
• Setting for matching noise level to image's noise level
• Additional options for fine-tuning blooming results (scan length, scan booster)
• Ability to create a map of blooms and stars to help with troubleshooting tough images
• Auto-increment when performing iterations (to increase aggressiveness with each iteration)
• Supports scripting.
• Graphic analysis of dim end of histogram to help set values.
• Ability to evaluate star fix-up visually, one star at a time, if desired.
• Integrates with CalGroups, sophisticated batch processing software for MaxIm DL 3. Save when you order both!