NiteView

NiteView is a small Visual Basic application which will shift your Windows 95/98 display to dark reds and grays to minimize the light radiated from the display into your observatory. NiteView also will hide your desktop icons and your taskbar.

Using NiteView

Launch NiteView and then move it to a convienient location on your desktop. It should initially position itself near the upper right corner of your display.

Check "Nite Colors" to shift your display to a set of colors very similar to those set by "The Sky" in night vision mode. Uncheck "Nite Colors" to restore your normal desktop colors.

Uncheck "Desktop" to hide your desktop icons.

Uncheck "Toolbar" to hide your toolbar.

Selecting the Help menu option "Restore Default Colors" allows getting back a standard set of colors in case some mishap leaves you with the night vision colors as your default.

NiteView does not "Remain on Top" ... if you want to access it during the night use altTab.

Download NiteView

Click the following link to download NiteView and all VB support files: niteview.zip

[latest revision posted 1900 Feb 6, 2000; (about 1.5 Mbytes)]

If you just need the exe file then here it is: niteview.exe

[latest revision posted 1900 Feb 6, 2000; (about 25 Kbytes)]

Unzip the file and run setup.exe to install NiteView and the neccessary support files.

If you have Visual Basic 6, download the source code and see how it works.: nv_vb6.zip

[latest revision posted 1900 Feb 6, 2000; (about 3800 bytes)]

This page is maintained by John P. Oliver; write me at oliver@astro.ufl.edu

This material is being made available to you subject to a variety of caveats.

Last revised 02/02/00