Software Bisque History, Innovations, and Milestones
The table below shows a timeline of Software Bisque benchmarks since 1983.
| Year | Event |
| 2021 | – TheSky Professional for Windows OS 64-bit released – Paramount Taurus 700 equatorial fork mount – Paramount Apollo 800 altazimuth mount |
| 2019 | – TheSky Imaging bundle – TheSky Fusion – Paramount Taurus 500/600 equatorial fork mount – Paramount Apollo 500/600 altazimuth mount |
| 2017 | – Software Bisque acquires TPoint Software |
| 2016 | – TheSkyX Professional Edition for Linux and TheSky Professional Edition for Raspberry Pi -released (December). – Paramount Taurus Model 400 Equatorial Mount introduced at the Society for Astronomical Sciences Symposium and the Southern California Astronomy Exposition (June). |
| 2015 | – Paramount Taurus Equatorial Fork Mount Models 500 and 600 introduced at the AMOS Conference (September). – Software Bisque telescope mirror covers demonstrated at the AMOS Conference (September). – Paramount MYT reviewed in the November, 2015 issue of Sky & Telescope Magazine. |
| 2014 | -Paramount MYT begins shipping (November). -Paramount MX+ begins shipping (June). -Software Bisque introduces and demonstrates TheSky Pro for embedded Linux at RTMC. |
| 2013 | – Paramount ME II begins shipping (March). – TheSky HD for iPad is released (October). |
| 2012 | – TheSky Professional with autoguiding released at AIC (November). |
| 2011 | – Paramount MX begins shipping. – The TPoint module to TheSky released. – The Dome module to TheSky Pro released. |
| 2010 | -TheSky Professional Edition for Mac and Windows released. (May) -TheSky’s Databases module introduced. (June) |
| 2009 | TheSky Serious Astronomer for Mac released at Macworld (January) |
| 2008 | TheSky Student Edition for Mac released at Macworld (January) |
| 2007 | – Seeker 3D solar system simulation software released (January 08 at MacWorld). – Software Bisque issued patent US7313763 B1: “A system for operating an astronomical observatory in real time using http.” – The Software Bisque technologies and team members are featured in Timothy Ferris’ Seeing in the Dark documentary. |
| 2004 | TheSky Version 6 released (April 16). |
| 2002 | Paramount ME begins shipping (April 9). |
| 2001 | – CCDSoft Version 5 released (May 25). – Dr. Charles Jules names the first of his 475 minor planet discoveries after the Bisque brothers. The official IAU designation for this object 12934 Bisque (1999 TH16). – The Minor Planet Bulletin, Volume 28, Number 4, A.D. 2001 October-December issue, publishes Software Bisque’s “Automated Minor Planet Light Curve Generation” article which satisfied both aspects of the Richard P. Binzel Challenge proposed in 1992. Editor’s note: As of May 2023, Software Bisque has yet to take possession of the offered prizes. |
| 2000 | – Paramount GT-1100S begins shipping – TheSky Pocket Edition for Windows CE devices released. |
| 1999 | Software Bisque presents the technical paper, “Leveraging Software To Make Highly Productive Robotic Telescope Systems” at the first Air Force Maui Optical Surveillance Technical Conference (AMOS) in Maui, HI. |
| 1998 | TheSky Version 5 for Mac and Windows released (December). |
| 1997 | – TPoint version 1 for Windows released. – AutomaDome dome control software for Windows released. |
| 1996 | – The Paramount GT-1100 is introduced at the first Advanced Imaging Conference in Santa Barbara, CA. (July 11, 1996) – Software Bisque co-sponsors the Advanced Imaging Conference (AIC) with Santa Barbara Instruments Group (SBIG). – TheSky Version 4 released. – Orchestrate Automation and Scripting Software released. |
| 1995 | CCDSoft Version 4 released. Software Bisque publishes the Focus, Optics, Seeing, Tracking, Experience, and Review (FOSTER) CCD Imaging book. |
| 1994 | TheSky Version 2 released. |
| 1993 | – CCDSoft Version 1 released. – Software Bisque remotely controls the Mt. Wilson Observatory 24-inch telescope and camera via modem from Golden, Colorado. |
| 1992 | TheSky for Windows ad appears in Sky & Telescope Magazine. |
| 1990 | TheSky version 1 for Windows 3.0 released. |
| 1989 | – Computer-Assist Services incorporates as Software Bisque, Inc. – Steve Bisque invents the push to or software-guided telescope (SGT) by mounting optical encoders to both axes of a telescope. A serial decoder (Software Bisque’s BBox) fed the encoder’s positions to TheSky. |
| 1983 | Steve Bisque releases The_Sky version 1.0 for MS-DOS. |
| 1981 | Steve Bisque founds Computer-Assist Services that focuses on developing custom financial software. |