To put finishing touches on the configuration for ease of use, I created two shortcuts.
Windows night screen windows 10#
Finally, I turned on the Night Light mode in the Windows 10 Notification / Control sidebar. To use the lowest color temperature available. Next I configured the Windows 10 Night Light mode I then added a custom High Contrast Theme to Windows and set the custom desktop theme to use that. To set up this mode, I created a Windows Theme which used a plain black background. Only pre-configured Windows 10 settings are used for this
Windows night screen software#
None of the software is in Night Vision Mode.
Windows night screen generator#
I am running Sequence Generator Pro, and PHD2 Guiding in this shot. The photo is cropped to show the only a portion of the screen. Figure 1 - Windows 10 Night Vision Mode settings applied to laptop display. IĪlways had some trouble reading small fonts through the Rubylith as they became blurred slightly. It also doesn't interfere with the view of the screen. It was actually more effective and dimmer than the Rubylith I used to use on my previous imaging laptop. I was amazed at how good this looked when I started playing with it. Below is a screenshot of my laptop screen using this mode. I can switch to a Windows mode which puts ALL software into Night I now no longer use any external device or software program for implementing Night Vision Mode. Settings is as good as any astronomy program's Night Vision Mode. The final effect using only native Windows 10 After playing around for several days, I stumbled upon a combination of settings every bit as good as using Rubylith over the screen. More useful and friendly for astrophotography. I found that several of the display settings features could be combined to make the laptop much While poking around in Windows 10, I found that you can configure it do a much better job than any external screens I have seen to date. Hence arises the need to use Rubylith, Red Acetate, and other physical screens to cut back on any non-red lighting coming from the laptop. Have such a mode (or don't support the system settings pushed out by other programs that do). While some / many astronomy software programs implement a Night Vision Mode, some don't and sometimes we use software tools while imaging that don't I used to use overlay films of different types to make my screen red while imaging. I discovered features that were actually a big step up from my use of previous versions of Windows. Of re-scrambled and misplaced (?) user interface settings proved to be worthwhile. As it is for many, it was unfamiliar territory coming from Windows 7 and Windows 8. It was my first introduction to Windows 10. New laptop for imaging back in December 2017 that had Windows 10 installed. Windows 10 now has display settings options that should be of interest to astrophotographers. While many do not like using Windows, it has nearly become a requirement in astronomy, and astrophotography in particular.