Astronomical Image Capture and realtime pre-processing
Copyright © 2009-2011 - Torsten Edelmann

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Introduction

FireCapture is a free JAVA-based software package primarily intended for planetary and lunar image capture.
It supports (or will) different kind of cameras and comes with a set of filters for pre-processing incomming frames.

 
Requirements

To run the program you need a JAVA Runtime Environment (JRE) installed. The program will check for a valid JRE-Installation
on startup. I strongly recommend a fast PC (Core2Duo or similar) ! The program has been tested on Win XP only.


Features

Various 8/16 bit data formats (AVI, SER, BMP, FIT, TIF)
Pre-filter incomming frames (stack, bright objects, quality...)
Calculation of ephemerides, effective focal-length and resolution
Automated capture and filter sequences
Motorized filter wheel support through scripts
Browse all details of your sessions and create web-images
Color cam support (realtime debayering, standalone debayer tool) 
Native Format-7 support (region of interest)
Profiles, filters, histogram, auto-aligning, night mode...


Supported cameras

Manufacturer	Interface			Driver	Models used so far
	1394	GigE	USB
				pylon SDK x86 2.3.0.2279	acA640, acA1300, scA640, scA1440, scA1300_32fm
				FlyCapture x86 v2.1 Rel. 05 *	Flea, Flea2, Flea3 (mono&color), Dragonfly2, Chameleon, Grashopper
		?		TISDCAM v4.1.1.1 **	DMK21, DMK31, DMK41, DBK21
				AVT Universal Package v2.0	Guppy Pro F-031, GE-680C (GigE)
WebCam				Microsoft DirectShow ***	Toucam, SPC900, iCam-Tracer

* FlyCapture v2.2 beta will NOT work
** v4.4.0.1 / IC Capture 2.2 may NOT work 
** limited support for DirectShow interface (some controls not working)

!! PLEASE READ THE HELP CONTENTS  AND LICENSE AGREEMENT CAREFULLY BEFORE DOWNLOADING !!


Screenshots                  Help Contents                 License agreement             Yahoo Group

Download (Release 2.0)  

2.1beta test version NEW



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