Introduction; A Note On Accuracy; System Requirements; Registering The Program - Meade Autostar Software Manual

Introduction

Welcome to Meade Autostar IP astronomical image processing software. Now you can perform many of
the same image processing tasks that a professional astronomer would do on a large institutional
computer. With Meade Autostar IP you can:
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A Note on Accuracy

Meade Autostar IP was designed to be extremely powerful and accurate. Many programs designed for
the PC have taken shortcuts to appear faster, but at the expense of accuracy! Not Meade Autostar IP! By
carefully coding each section of the program using 64 bit floating point numbers, Meade Autostar IP takes
full advantage of your computer to provide fast and accurate performance. This gives you the power and
accuracy that rivals main-frame computer performance.

System Requirements

The minimum system required to run Meade Autostar IP are as follows:
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Registering the Program

Please take the time to fill out and mail the Registration Card you received with Meade Autostar IP.
Registering Meade Autostar IP entitles you to the following additional benefits:
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Enhance high resolution images using advanced image processing techniques.
Determine stellar magnitudes directly from electronic images, and a number of other powerful
64 MB RAM.
Hard Disk with 20 Megabytes of free space.
An VGA or better adapter and compatible monitor.
Microsoft Windows 98SE or above.
A Microsoft compatible mouse.
Meade 's technical support, if you have difficulty using Meade Autostar IP.
Automatic notification of upgrades or revisions to Meade Autostar IP.
Automatic notification when new images or data become available.
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