Pocket Stars Astronomy Software for Pocket PC, Smartphone, and desktop

the universe as near as your pocket...

2D and 3D views of

the solar system and beyond

from anywhere on earth

anywhere in the solar system

for any time and date

Which Version of Pocket Stars do you need?

Pocket Stars is a fun, fast, high accuracy star chart, astronomy reference, celestial navigation tool, and guide to the heavens.

Pocket Stars is available in three versions. The PDA and PC versions are available in English.

Pocket Stars SP version can dynamically change menus, dialogs, star names, and constellations to any of the following languages:

Chinese
English
French
German
Italian
Spanish
Russian

Compare features of all 3 versions.

NOAA Nautical Charts, tides and currents on the web

I've recently been working on a new site to display animated tides and currents overlayed on NOAA Nautical Charts.

www.deepzoom.com

This is a work in progress, so
DO NOT USE FOR ANY FORM OF VESSEL NAVIGATION!

Note that you can change the speed of time animation and the transparency of the charts.

NOAA Nautical Charts and Currents for Windows Phone 7 and 8

Nautical Charts is also available
for Windows Phone 7 and 8.

Features

NOAA raster charts for the entire USA
Transparent layers with Bing satellite and street maps
Show tides and currents
Create routes
Place annotated markers
Show position, speed, and direction

New! Shiny!

Purchase at the Windows Phone Store

Windows Video Capture

While working at Microsoft, I designed much of the video capture infrastructure present in Windows 3.1 / 95 / 98 / 2000 / XP. Visit this page for historical information on video capture in Windows, and to download additional tools used for WDM capture driver and DirectShow development.