PhotoHound DonationWare version

PhotoHound previously only available for Macintosh 10.6-10.7 from the Mac App Store, is now available for earlier versions of Mac OS X, and will run on PPC Macs as well as Intel Macs.

PhotoHound

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Alamy SizeCheck Software updated

Alamy SizeCheck version 1.0.9
With this software utility you can check that your photographs are correctly sized for the Alamy Stock Agency before you upload them.
Simply choose the folder that your photographs are in and Alamy SizeCheck will check each jpg for correct uncompressed and compressed file sizes.

More details and downloads here

Alamy SizeCheck Software

Alamy SizeCheck - software by Braeside Communication Services

Check that your Alamy photo submissions are the correct file size.

With this software utility you can check that your photographs are correctly sized for the Alamy Stock Agency before you upload them.
Alamy requires JPG files that are greater than 48MB in size when uncompressed and not more than 25MB compressed.

Simply choose the folder that your photographs are in and Alamy SizeCheck will check each jpg for correct uncompressed and compressed file sizes.

Alamy SizeCheck is available for both Apple Macintosh OS X and MicroSoft Windows platforms.

Free download here

Bedford School Microwave Telescope

Braeside Communication Services have supplied their MoonSked software for controlling the tracking of the newly commissioned Bedford School Microwave Telescope.

BCS wrote the special driver software to control the dual Azimuth and Elevation ProSisTel antenna controllers via serial interfaces.

In the short time since 'first light' the telescope and electronics has survived two nights of serious electrical storms and some lightning strikes in the vicinity and the pupils have managed to observe the Moon and image the Sun in two dimensions.

The Telescope can also be remotely controlled via the Internet.


The Telescope
The 1.2 metre dish antenna on the roof of the school with feed horn, preamplifier and control cables. Prosistel elevation and azimuth drives.


The Microwave Telescope Control Room
The computer displaying CCTV picture of dish on roof, Moonsked and control software on screen. Az/El controllers on RHS. Also shown right of computer is a microwave signal generator for calibration purposes.
Not shown is the wideband receiver or the weather station which is used to monitor wind speed and direction for dish safety.

[Photos courtesy of Bedford School]

Further information about the Microwave Telescope may be sought from:
Bedford School Physics and Astronomy Department
Bedford School
De Parys Avenue
MK40 2TU.