Features

Main Screen Layout

Menus

Initial Setup

Eclipse Preparation

Script File Format

Camera Configuration

Notes

Troubleshooting

Shortcuts and Tips

Credits & Acknowledgments

• Application & Installation
  • What is Solar Eclipse Maestro?
  • Installation
  • General preferences
  • Check for updates
• Eclipse & Observer
  • Configuration wizard
  • Choosing a solar eclipse
  • Setting the observer’s location
  • Using the GPS unit
  • Setting the date and time
  • Adjusting the event times
  • Local circumstances table
  • Detailed local circumstances table
  • Sun/Moon diagram
  • Eclipse map
  • Eclipse compass rose
  • Lunar limb profile
  • Baily’s beads animation
  • Baily’s beads close-up animation
  • Baily’s beads analysis
  • Sky chart
  • Eclipse animation
  • Eclipse geometry from space
  • Solar observatory
  • Solar and lunar elevations graph
  • Meteorology
  • Weather predictions
  • Atmospheric refraction
  • Solar eclipses visibility
  • LRO, Kaguya and Watts lunar limb profiles comparison
  • Flash spectrum analysis
  • Eclipse path data
  • Gridded set of points of local circumstances
  • Besselian elements
  • Major timers
  • Night vision
  • Google Earth kmz file
  • GPS gpx file
  • Integrated Google Maps
  • Integrated Google Earth
  • Integrated Google Earth planetarium
  • Eclipse chasers database update
• Digital Cameras and CCD Cameras
  • Automatic digital camera detection
  • Setting up the digital cameras
  • Setting up the CCD cameras
  • Referencing the cameras
  • Taking a single test exposure
  • Using remote live view
  • Available properties
  • Cameras battery levels
  • Properties analysis
  • Property events analysis
  • Exposure calculator
  • Field of view calculator
  • Sensor sampling calculator
  • MMV cba file generator
• Scripts
  • Create a script
  • Exposure sequence analyzer
• E-Flight
  • Access to the E-Flight module
  • Plan and execute an E-Flight
  • E-Flight totality duration tabulated data
  • E-Flight Units Converter