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written by Massimo Riccardi |
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(ATMOS7)
ATMOS Optical Design and Analysis Software is the creation of Massimo Riccardi, an Italian advanced Amateur Telescope Maker and designer. Mr. Riccardi has considerable experience with telescope designing and glassworking: Doublets, Triplets, Catadioptrics, etc. Several years ago, after mastering his optical knowledge, he felt the need for a program capable of producing SpotDiagrams for many wavelengths at the same time. So, just for fun, he tried to write a routine capable of producing such polychromatic Spotdiagrams using the only programming language he knew: QBASIC.
He succeeded and, as often happens, he felt the need to improve it again by adding several analysis routines. Thus, the first version of "ATMOS" (Amateur Telescope Maker Optical design and analysis Software) was born. At that time it was for personal use only.
Then, dissatisfied with DOS & QBASIC capabilities, he chose a programming language that ran under MS-WINDOWS. In this way he could get not only a better looking program, but most of all, a user-friendly interface with many windows, buttons and textboxes where the user could type the data or display the results. He rewrote ATMOS in Visual Basic and added many more analysis routines and useful telescope design tools.
ATMOS now is a powerful program with a user-friendly interface that allows the user to Analyze, Design and OPTIMIZE Centered/Uncentered optical systems and it is avalaible at a very affordable price. Atmos is appreciated by amateurs and professional users and is under continuous developement.
The current ATMOS version supports up to 100 surfaces and Obscuration Screens. It includes a powerful routine for Optimization, adjustable Aperture Stop position and supports both Finite/Infinte Object Distance. It also displays improved 2D, 3D-Layouts .
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. . Centered and Uncentered . . up to 100 + focal plane . . Spheres,Conics ,High-Orders, Obscuration Screens . . up to 6 . . up to 30000 . . Finite/Infinity . . Adjustable position |
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One of the most useful and pleasant tool for the ATM is the "Telescope
Design" Menu.
You can easily and quickly design and then analyze about 30
optical configurations:
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The following are some screen shots taken from ATMOS.
-LENS DATA EDITOR
-MATRIX Spot-Diagam
-Polichromatic MULTI-SPOTDIAGRAM (through
Focus/Field)
-Ray-Intercept Curves
-Geometric POINT SPREAD FUNCTION (3D rotation)
-Diffraction POINT SPREAD FUNCTION (FFT method))
-Simulated Color Diffraction Image
-WAVEFRONT (3D rotation)
-Interferogram
-Through focus MTF (Modulation Transfer
Function)
-Longitudinal,Transversal SPHERICAL ABERRATION and COMA
(Offense against the Sine Condition)
-OPTIMIZATION window
-new 2D and 3D LAYOUTS
-TRIPLET DESIGN WINDOW
-SCHMIDT-CASSEGRAIN DESIGN WINDOW
Download the following file:
- ATMOS FreeWare
- (about 3 MB)
After downloading "Atmos
Freeware.zip" , unzip it then double-click on "setup.exe" for ATMOS
self-installation.
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PLEASE NOTE: This program comes on a CD ROM. Original purchasers of ATMOS v. 7.x will be entitled to free minor upgrades (for example: 7.5 to 7.6) for a period of one year from the date of purchase. Major version changes (for example: 7.5 to 8.0) will be sold at a reduced price to original customers who have purchased their software within the previous year.
A perfect way to pass the time (and learn something about optics) on those cold dreary rainy nights.
Massimo Riccardi's contact iformation is available on his ATMOS website:
http://www.atmos-software.it
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