Description

Welcome to advanced auto-guiding/focusing and optical quantitative telescope alignment !

Initial owners of SkyGuide can request an upgrade to SkyGuard (same level of functionality) for full frame auto-guiding AND live (real time) focusing .The SkyGuard full frame live focusing capability requires an ONAG..

To be able to upgrade you will need to have SKyGuide application installed with a permanent license registered under the name of the initial buyer. SKG licenses are not transferable.

SkyGuard features our patented full frame auto-guiding and real time (live) auto-focus technology and includes our SkyWave-Collimator* licence for quantitative telescope collimation using AI based wavefront sensing technology.

The SKW-Collimator analyzes FIT files with our patented AI based wavefront sensing technology and includes a user-friendly collimation tool. SKW delivers quantitative optical collimation data based on wavefront sensing.

* Please note, SKW requires the purchase of a specific model for your telescope. Visit our online store to explore available models.

SkyGuard license for one machine (PC running Microsoft Windows OS) and one user, not transmissible.

This is SkyGuard license purchase order. After completing your purchase, please log in to our portal at portal.innovationsforeisght.com to install SkyGuard/SKW software.

Notice:

All SKG/SKW products are downloaded from our portal portal.innovationsforeisght.com including updates with the same license key at any time. Software upgrades maybe for sale. Only one version of our SKG/SKW product need and can be installed on a given machine. Your SKG license key is only valid for the purchased product. SKG requires the installation of the ASCOM platform version compatible with the latest SKG release for using ASCOM drivers.

SKG can be downloaded for a trail period, please connect to your account on our portal to dowload a free trial versions.

Please read all the information below before purchasing

Download and Installation Information:

For download and installation, please visit our portal at portal.innovationsforeisght.com.

SkyGuard and Operating system versions

While we have successfully maintained SKG/SKW operations on MS Windows 7, we strongly recommend upgrading to Windows 10 or a later version. As some components and software libraries may soon become incompatible with Windows 7, continuing to use this outdated system could pose risks. Please note that Microsoft ended support for Windows 7 in January 2020. For further details, refer to SKG/SKW interactive help and documentation.

SKG is available on 32 and 64 bit version for Windows. If you run a Windows 32 bit OS you need to download  the corresponding SKG 32 bit package, otherwise we strongly recommend the SKG 64 bit version unless some of your ASCOM drivers (if you plan to use any ASCOM driver) are only available on a 32 version. In such case you will need to install the SKG 32 version even if you run a Windows 64 bit OS (you also need all 32 bits versions of your ASCOM drivers for full compatibility). SKG 32 bits versions are limited to 1 M-pixel guider frame size with Maxim-DL and 4 M-pixel size with ASCOM drivers.

Interface with third party tools:

SKG is design to interface with Maxim-DL if/when available, it is also supported by SGP and NINA. We also offer scripts (Power Shell and Command Shell) to be used for automation of third party software, such as CCDCommander, CCDAutopilot, ACP, Voyager and others, please visit our SKG/SKW documentation page. SKG requires the installation of the ASCOM platform for using ASCOM drivers, see our SKG/SKW download page for supported ASCOM platform versions.

For key documentation and helpful information, visit:

• Full SkyGuide, SkyGuard and SkyWave-Collimator versions interactive help and documentation
• SkyWave Collimator Tool Quick Start Guide
• SkyWave: Dealing with seeing (PDF)
  Alignment of Cassegrain type of telescopes having at least one spherical mirror (such as SCT, CDK, iDK) with SKW (PDF)
  Alignment of Ritchey–Chrétien Telescopes (RCT) with SKW (PDF)