STAR Atlas:PRO™ supports most popular makes and models of telescopes, easily pointing your telescope to countless deep sky objects in no time at all.

Slewing your telescope to the Great Nebula in Orion is as easy as choosing Locate, then select the Great Nebula in Orion from the list of deep sky objects, click Goto and your telescope slews straight to it. Or on horizon chart or deep sky chart, right click on any celestial object and choose Goto, telescope control couldn't be simpler!

In fact controlling your robotic Telescope can be achieved using numerous methods with STAR Atlas:PRO™ depending on your personal choices. The Astronomical Database Manager may be used to locate any celestial object of choice from STAR Atlas:PRO's databases, then choose the [Goto] command to slew your telescope to that object. There are other sophisticated features available too, when celestial objects are clustered together on the screen, such as stars in a star cluster, STAR Atlas:PRO™ lists all the objects located in the proximity. You may then slew your telescope to each object individually or to any object of choice.

Telescopes equipped with Digital Setting Circles (DSC), or similar equipment like the Argo Navis™ Digital Telescope Computer, can use STAR Atlas:PRO™ to find deep sky objects quickly and easily.

STAR Atlas:PRO™ displays a cursor at the pointing location of your telescope, when you move your telescope, the cursor floats across the STAR Atlas:PRO™ chart to follow your telescope. In no time at all you’ll be locating dozens of deep sky objects just by watching the computer monitor and moving your telescope to centre on deep sky objects.

Of course STAR Atlas:PRO™ can also project eyepiece and CCD camera reticles onto a chart to match the field of view of your telescope, and eyepieces or cameras.

Telescope Support

STAR Atlas:PRO™ supports dozens of different makes and models of telescopes including Meade, Celestron, Vixen, Astro-Physics, and the freely available ASCOM telescope plug-in drivers

User Comments

"using the telescope with STAR Atlas:PRO™ makes the whole set up seem more like a remote control robot"

"star atlas pro's Telescope Control System makes controlling your telescope a breeze..."

"never before have I located so many deep sky objects, so quickly, in one night"

Advanced Support for Meade Telescopes

The STAR Atlas:PRO™ inbuilt Meade telescope driver supports high & low precision telescope pointing and includes the powerful Control Panel for Meade Telescopes (pictured) that permits you to remotely control the settings of your Meade telescope with ease. many commands supported including...

• Movement Rate
• Slew Rate
• Precision Focus Control
• Reticle Flash Rate & Brightness Level
• Smart Drive mode
• Tracking Rate
• GPS Controls
• PEC Controls
• Pointing Precision
• Fan Control
• Field de-rotator
• Sleep Mode
• Telescope Parking
• and much more...

[GOTO] dozens of objects in no time at all

Each of STAR Atlas:PRO's Astronomical Catalogues available in the Astronomical Database Manager include the Telescope commands [GOTO] and [SYNC].

The [GOTO] command Slews your telescope to any celestial object you care to select from STAR Atlas:PRO's mammoth astronomical catalogue database.

[SYNC] is used to re-calibrate the pointing accuracy of your Meade compatible telescope during an observing session by calibrating the telescope position with the same co-ordinates of the celestial object you have centred your telescope on.