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Image Acquisition in PixInsight (Was: When will Pixinsight...)
Emanuele:
....get an ImageAcquisition process? ;D
Wouldn't it be cool to just do everything within PI (and within OSX!): Control CCDs, FilterWheels, Plate Solving and interfacing with the planetariums.
Those are the only 4 major tools that are needed, in the end.
:)
Just dreaming...
E.
Jack Harvey:
Would not hold my breath, such a program requires dealing with a myriad of hardware and drivers etc. I could be wrong, but my preference is too do the image processing - and do it well.
DaveS:
I think that could slow down the ongoing development of PI as an imaging processing resource (and dare I say, documentation for it ;)).
Many astro-imaging CCD cameras come with image capture software, albeit mostly quite basic, and there are a number of free guiding programmes (e.g. PHD)
Astro Art offers both capture and guiding, and is not expensive. At least not when compared to it's competitors offerings.
My vote goes to keeping PI as a 'stand-alone' image processing package, continued development of new 'tools', and improvement of existing ones.
Dave
Juan Conejero:
If some developer or development team wants to implement an image acquisition suite on PixInsight, it will be very welcome. And I agree: it would be extremely cool.
Right now PixInsight/PCL provides a rich, multiplatform development framework to implement sophisticated graphical interfaces and image processing tools. It is just a matter of putting the device drivers into action (the dirty work); everything else is very easy.
I personally won't start development of anything related to image acquisition. However, any interested developers can count on my support and assistance. PixInsight is an open-architecture system precisely to make everything possible --and it is possible, if someone decides to start a project seriously.
Packing and uploading PI version 1.6.9.651 while I'm writing this, so stay tuned ;)
RBA:
--- Quote from: Juan Conejero on 2010 December 30 17:40:20 ---If some developer or development team wants to implement an image acquisition suite on PixInsight, it will be very welcome. And I agree: it would be extremely cool.
--- End quote ---
Interesting! I was about to post a message with only two words:
"Delegate. Supervise."
And let those words do the talk, but in the end I decided to keep it to myself in case it wasn't quite in line with your thoughts.
Well, there you go!
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