Reticulum is a simple, affordable software utility designed to help amateur astronomers and astro-photographers perfect their drift alignment process. With your laptop connected to your servo-motor operated telescope; you adjust your telescope’s movement, until your chosen star on screen, remains centered in Reticulum’s cross hairs, long enough for your observation or photographic exposure.

• Reticulum provides you with the following features:
  • A very easy and intuitive user interface
  • Multiple sets of crosshairs.
  • Configurable N/S/E/W compass marks
  • Crosshairs three speeds rotation for maximum accuracy.
  • Built in timer with start/stop/reset controls.
  • Transparency control for maximum visibility on dark nights.
  • Toolbar auto hide to further reduce the amount of light.

Go ahead and try it now! And please make sure to check the Reticulum web page for more information.

Reticulum Pro provides all features available with the basic version and extends it by allowing full customization of the crosshairs. Here are a few examples of features Reticulum Pro provides:

• Extensive set of built in crosshairs.
• Fully customizable crosshairs. You can change the following:
  • Double crosshairs separation and color.
  • Crosshairs center gap size
  • Inner shape size, color, geometry, and frequency.
  • Outer shape color and geometry.

Go ahead and try it now! And please make sure to check the Reticulum web page for more information.

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