AudelaA

[Rocket Pooch]

Hi,

This is a free open source camera control and processing system,;

AudeLA 2.0 open source software is now available. This is *free*
software for astronomy used by lot of amateur astronomers but also
professional astronomers (robotic TAROT telescope is controled by AudeLA
for exemple; 1.93m OHP telescope is also controled by AudeLA for GoTo
and autoguiding; ...).

MS-windows version now supports QSI camera among others. It does support
windowed/cropped acquisition and binning of course. For Linux, it does
require some additional work to integrate linux driver into AudeLA. As
any Open Source sofdtware, anyone is welcome to help and provide some
coding resources!

_/*Main Features:*/_

Aiming and controlling equipment

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Align assistant with the polar scope (Takahashi or EQ6)
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Align assistant with the King method
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Focusing assistant
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Pipeline for the aiming model
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GOTO function using integrated catalogs (planets, asteroids,
Messier objects, reference stars, NGC, IC, Moon)
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GOTO function using another charting planetarium tool (Guide,
Carte du ciel , Skychart)
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Remote control from a computer
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Check position and time via GPS (through a serial or Ethernaude link)
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Control of filter wheels
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Virtual control pad
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Autoguiding
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Supported telescopes : LX200 protocol (with special features of
Audecom, Skysensor, losmandy, It-lente, Mbartels), Ouranos, Temma,
Ascom, Celestron
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Link: serial port, USB/Serial adapter

Capturing Images

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Capture modes: serial, continuous, windowed, binning, scan, video.
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Capturing videos with a Webcam (Windows only).
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Characteristics of the optics (CCD field, binning, focal lengths,
etc.).
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Capturing scans (drift-scan and normal scan)
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Display of a reticle for centering purposes
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Pipeline for supernovae survey
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Pipeline for asteroid photometry
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Supported cameras: Audine, Hi-Sis, SBIG, CB245, Starlight, Kitty,
Webcam, TH78521, SRC1300XTC, Canon EOS, Coolpix, Andor
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Supported links: parallel port, USB port, Ethernaude, Quickremote
(USB/parallel converter)
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Long exposure option for webcams and DSLRs (via serial port,
USB/serial adapter, parallel port or QuickRemote interface)

Displaying Images

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Zoom, mirror, windowing, full screen
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Transfer functions (linear, log, exponential, arc-tangent).
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Automatic adjustment of viewing thresholds.
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Changing colour palettes
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Multi-window display
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Viewer with animation or blinking

Processing Images

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Processing one image (add , subtract, divide, etc.)
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Processing series of images (register, add, subtract, etc.)
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Geometric operations (mirrors, windowing, resampling)
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Optimizing dark frame, subtracting sky background
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Filters (high pass, low pass, gaussian, median)
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Wavelets, logarithms
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Statistics on the image, Fwhm, Flow, Photocentre
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Histogram, section
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Image selection
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Processing colour images (RAW?CFA, CFA?RGB, R+G+B?RGB, etc.)

Advanced Processing of Images

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Automatic pre-processing (make a dark frame, a flat field,
registering)
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Astrometric calibration
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SpcAudace <http://bmauclaire.free.fr/spcaudace/> (automatic
spectrum processing, spectral astrophysics analysis)

[Mac]

Does it make the tea? 

Looks like its got all the bases covered.
If its as good as it says it is, it might just be the only piece of software you need for imaging.
(not processing just acquisition)

Mac.