Astronomical Image Capture and Realtime Preprocessing
Copyright © 2009-2012 - Torsten Edelmann

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Features

	Camera support for: Basler, TIS, Point Grey, Allied Vision, NET FOculus, QHYCCD (optional)
	Various 8/16Bit data formats (AVI, SER, BMP, FIT, TIF)
	Motorized filter wheel support (ASCOM, Homeyer, SBig CFW10)
	Telescope autoguiding interface (ASCOM, Cookbook CCD)
	Automated filter sequences and individual camera settings
	Color camera support (real-time debayering, standalone debayer tool)
	SessionBrowser for historized session details
	Calculation of ephemerides, effective focal-length and resolution
	PreProcessing, NightMode, Histogram, AutoAlign, Crop, AutoRun...

Requirements

• JAVA Runtime Environment (JRE) installed (will be checked during startup)
• reasonable fast PC (Core2Duo or similar is strongly recommended !)           
  
• camera driver installed in a version as given by the following table                
  

Camera	Interface			Driver	Models used so far
	1394	GigE	USB
				Basler Pylon 2.3.x (x86)	acA640, acA1300, scA640, scA1440, scA1300_32fm
				FlyCapture 2.2 (x86!!)	Flea, Flea2, Flea3 (mono&color), Dragonfly2, Chameleon, Grashopper
				TIS WDM driver	DMK21, DMK31, DMK41, DBK21
				AVT Universal Package v2.1	Guppy Pro F-031, GE-680C (GigE)
				FOControl v4.0.5.1	FO442SB
QHYCCD *				IMG driver	IMG0H, IMG132S
WebCam **				Microsoft DirectShow	Toucam, SPC900, iCam-Tracer...

* available as optional package               ** limited support for DirectShow interface (some controls not working)



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Thanks to

Dr. Michael Schröder (for extensive testing)
Anthony Wesley (for extensive Flea3 support)
Clif Ashcraft (for testing the debayer tool)
Heiko Wilkens (allowing usage of his SER format)
Felipe Largo (spanish translation of help pages)
Maciej Libert (for lending me a DMK)
...and all the unnamed testers helping with comments and feedback



Donation

Because of additional costs I have every now and then when exceeding my bandwidth limit I decided
to ask for donations. So if you find this program useful you're welcome to donate a small amount of your choice.
 

Contact

I'm very interested in improving this program. Your suggestions, questions or feedback are always welcome.
For bugs & error reports please attach the log.txt  from the FireCapture root-directory.
Feel free to contact me at:





See also

http://foto.wonderplanets.de
http://www.wonderplanets.de