Hi folks,
We have been working hard on a lot of things these days, but, one of them in particular stands out. We have spent a great deal of time perfecting a way to derive the ambient temperature based on the “cricket chirp rate”. It’s true, in most areas of the world, you can determine the temperature by listening to crickets. The faster they chirp, the higher the temperature. You can then feed this temperature into any part of SGPro… use it for FITS headers, focus triggers etc. It can be used just like a temperature reading from any other source. We do all this with your computer’s built in microphone (or an external one if your machine doesn’t have one built in). Noisy dog? Cars? Live near an airport? None of this is a problem… we have spent months perfecting noise isolation patterns for crickets so you can be rest assured that this temperature is accurate.
Finally, we realize that SGPro users live all over the world. To include as many folks as possible, we have provided the capability to select one of 3 different kinds of crickets. You may need to do a little research to find out which kind you have. Here is a preview: