Sciatrope : From the greek σκια (shadow) and τροπη (turn), "which turns towards the shadow", opposite to an heliotrope. But, in this case, not so opposite, because the shadow this software is looking for, is the solar umbra during a solar eclipse.

Sciatrope is a Cocoa (MacOS X) application that helps preparing for, and observe a solar eclipse. It is a "Universal binary" running natively on PowerPC and Intel Macintosh, under MacOSX 10.4 or 10.5.

• It gives the eclipse circumstances, distance and direction to the central line.
• It supports the connection to a NMEA compatible GPS receiver, to input location and time.
• It starts actions at prescripted times during the eclipse. For signaling the proximity of eclipse contacts, controlling a camera, controlling a live broadcast or whatever you may imagine.

I developed Sciatrope for the 2006 total solar eclipse, and used it in Niger to make my iBook perform vocal announces of the eclipse progression.
It has since then accumulated dust in some remote part of my hard disk... Time has come to share it with other eclipse chasers, and improve it.
I intend to control my DSLR with it during the next eclipse.

Downloads are available at https://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=214729.

The online help is under redaction in the wiki.

The project summary page is at https://sourceforge.net/projects/sciatrope/.

You may wish to support Sciatrope development by making a donation.

Please feel free to contribute, it will be greatly appreciated.
The simplest contribution is to report any bugs you encounter, or new features you would like to see implemented.
By registering as a SourceForge.net developer, you can participate to bug corrections or improvements, you can add more languages, improve the help files or whatever you think will make Sciatrope a more pleasing software.