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Unfortunately thereвЂ™s no 64-bit ARM release at the moment because my 64-bit RPi seems to have had a meltdown. The intention is that it should be possible to use this to create a video stream to upload to youtube or Facebook, for example, but beyond actually writing data to the named pipe IвЂ™ve done no further work on this as yet. IвЂ™ve also added a new вЂњnamed pipeвЂќ output file mode.

Allow SER files larger than 2.1GB on 32-bit systems.

Dynamically load support libraries if they are present.

Add oalive to package for Linux (itвЂ™s a separate image for MacOS).

Add support for Risingcam cameras (using libnncam).

Add support for Orion Starshoot G2 cameras.

#Astrophotography image stacking software mov update#

Update ASI filter wheel support to latest release ().Update Toupcam support to latest release (46.17118).Update ASI camera support to latest release ().Update Mallincam support to latest release (43.15988).Update QHY support to latest release 200522 (200424 for MacOS).Regardless, thirteen months after 1.6.0, oacapture and oalive 1.7.0 are finally released! Testing has become nigh on impossible beyond a small range of hardware, so there may be problems. Perhaps more regular releases might be the solution, or doing a more limited beta release. oacapture/oalive 1.7.0 releasedД®ach time I do this it seems to get more difficult. This entry was posted in Announcements on Decemby admin. My intention is to have the next release done fairly soon with a small number of changes, possibly including beta support for the SVBony SV305. IвЂ™ve not yet checked to see if this is resolved in the very latest INDI release, but unfortunately thereвЂ™s nothing I can do about the problem рџ™Ѓ In release 1.8.7 of the INDI library, there was a breakage that affected the installation of oacapture (as well as the GIMP and a number of other applications). Some people have reported problems saving images in MacOS, but I canвЂ™t reproduce it so if it doesnвЂ™t work for you and youвЂ™re able to provide more information, please do. If this option is enabled for any other camera itвЂ™s going to have unpredictable behaviour. This is because the Neximage 10 appears to do exactly that. ThereвЂ™s a new camera setting to allow frames that are reported as being 8-bit greyscale to be treated as 8-bit raw colour. This has only been tested with a single, quite old, Basler monochrome Gig-E camera so there may well be issues with OSC or USB models. Support for Basler cameras is via the Basler Pylon libraries which will need to be downloaded from BaslerвЂ™s website. IвЂ™m not sure the RPi cameras are supported in ARM Ubuntu releases, so the RPi cameras may only be available in Raspbian/Raspberry Pi OS. However, as they appear to be rebadged Touptek cameras similar to those of Altair, Risingcam and Opticstar, all of which do work, I feel fairly confident about it. I have no Omegon camera to test with so support for those cameras may not be perfect. Enable 8-bit mono-as-raw for Neximage 10.Fix 16-bit mode (I hope) for cameras supported by libqhyccd.Fix handling of Flycapture on/off and auto controls.Beta support for Basler cameras on Linux.Improve YUYV and UYVY to RGB colour conversions.

Improve handling of auto-exposure control.

Fix handling of 10-, 12- and 14-bit unpacked frames for FITS.

Fix handling of 16-bit IIDC image frames.

Fixes for RPI cameras (standard and HQ).

Update to latest (non beta) QHY libraries.

Image stacking is the single most important technique in astrophotography. The second program, Keith's Video Integrater, which is out of date, performed a couple of different tasks. It could be used to sum short images on the fly, or it can be used to capture long exposure images from the modified webcam.

Of course, it can also be used to capture darkframes for subsequent subtraction from captured images. It didn't have any way to automatically control long exposures however, so I had to use physical switches to control the camera, which I would manually toggle on and off. The third program, Keith's AstroImager SV203 was a replacement for Keith's Video Integrater.

#Astrophotography image stacking software mov serial#

I gutted the realtime video integration because I didn't find it to be very useful, but otherwise rewrote the image capture program from the ground up to clean up the code and introduced serial port routines for controlling a long exposure modified camera through the Pontech SV203 servo controller. You can read a little about how that works in the section where I describe the camera mod.

Keith's AstroImagerДЇinally, Keith's AstroImager matured into a product worthy of public distribution. I removed the Pontech SV203 code since it isn't useful for anyone but myself, and added a number of features that are useful for general astrophotography. Please give it a try and let me know if you find it useful.