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Welcome to PRiSM software web site


The best way to achieve your digital observations

with your instruments

PRiSM is a software for controlling telescope (telescope,filter wheel, focuser), recording images from CCD camera, preprocessing, processing and analyzing astronomical images. It embeds also an efficient Skymap tool.

You can replace many costly software into a single, well integrated an optimized solution.

This software has been written for 15 years and gathers user experience / feedback from the field.

This is a complete solution, and a large software that is being developed for 15 years widely used by many people and even professional observatories.
It is XP, windows 7and Vista compliant.

It has very advanced features, like pointing model, scripting, automated observations, plate solving, automatic asteroid searching, image dark/offset/flat removal and so on...

Click here to download the installation zipped file (200Mo) v7.2.8
you can use it during 60 days for free.

Prism installation is safe, it is just copying files, and does not add any COM objects, large portions of data into database registry, or files into system folders or whatever that can harm, slow down or damage your system.
Desinstallation can be achieved by just deleting Prism files !

It uses ASCOM standard in order to drive all available hardware in the market : telescopes, filter wheel, focusers, ccd camera, domes, cloud sensors.

Some users and images samples :

  • All images from L.Bernasconi have been acquired and preprocessed using PRISM v7 . He has a 500mm f/3 telescope operated remotely using the automatic observation feature from PRISM v7. This is the single software he is using for recording, driving the telescope and controlling whole observatory remotely (including all sky camera and cloud sensor control).
  • Stephane Guisard (ESO) "Los Cielos de Chile" has processed and recorded his images using PRISM.
  • Prism is used by ESO, Observatori Astronomico de Mallorca, La Palma, (Spain) Instituto de Astrofisica de Andalucia, Grenada, (Spain), all french professionnal observatories ...

Additional downloads (catalogs):

See here in order to include these catalogs in the soft.

Here are some screen-shots (click image to enlarge)

Main software's window (Pre-processing menu expanded)
 


The file menu


The preprocessing menu The image/display menu


The geometric transformation menu The color image processing menu


The arithmetic image processing menu The image analyze menu


The CCD/DSLR/Video camera menu (including automatic focusing)


The telescope setup panel The telescope menu (including pointing model)


The option menu


The telescope, filter wheel, camera, dome, derotator control panels when connected to the telescope and camera


The integrated automatic observation control panel