ATMOS - ATM Optical Design and Analysis Software (ATMOS895)

October 21, 2024 Massimo Riccardi, author of ATMOS, is now offering this optical design and analysis software free-of-charge as a generous gift to the optical community. This is a free working program. 

Download ATMOS 8.95 FREE !!

Download the following file:

ATMOS Free (about 10MB). This link will take you to the atmos-software.it website.

After downloading, unzip it then double-click "setup.exe" for ATMOS self-installation. 

Background:

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 Spot Diagrams for many wavelengths at the same time. So, just for fun, he tried to write a routine capable of producing such polychromatic Spot diagrams 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 available at a very affordable price. ATMOS is appreciated by amateurs and professional users and is under continuous development.

Please proceed to this link for additional information regarding features:

https://www.atmos-software.it/Atmos8_95_FREE.html

You may also be interested in ATMOSFRINGE Interferogram Analysis Software, also available free-of-charge.