The Sorcerer's Apprentice
An early beta aimed at lucky imaging for Solar, Lunar, and Planetary work. It is currently available for Apple Silicon Mac users with Player One cameras.
Read about the betaProducts from late nights and clear skies.
Commercial and free software, books, and retired projects from a one-person shop powered by computers, graphics, imaging, astronomy, and very strong black tea.
Current
The Sorcerer's Apprentice is in open beta
Free Tools
ScopeWizard is available across major platforms
Retired
Older projects still have their stories
Current products
Some are commercial, some are free, and some are still finding their final shape. The common thread is that they grew out of real interests and real use.
ScopeWizard
An astronomical telescope calculator for magnification, limiting magnitude, camera field of view, pixel scale, focal ratios, and unit conversions.
The Evening Show
A self-published book about astrophotography: not a technical how-to, but a layman's overview of what cameras reveal in the sky and a little of how it is done.
Print · Kindle · Apple Books
Space Jongg
A space-themed Mahjong-style puzzle game for iPad. It was a modest endeavor by most standards, but it was fun to build, and every time it lapses I hear from people who want it back.
Retired products
Long-running projects leave a mark. These are part of Starstone's history, and in a few cases, ideas that may still come around again.
Eye of the Storm
Starstone was incorporated in 1996 around a shareware hurricane tracking program called Eye of the Storm. I maintained the software and weather service for 15 years before retiring it.
The Fourth Day
An astronomical calendar and almanac with desktop and iOS incarnations, including Earth, Sun, Moon, rise/set, and almanac views. I still get emails asking whether it might return.
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