XmCCD
Linux Software for Astronomical CCD Camera Control
- In the current version ...
- Runs natively on recent Linux distributions with a 2.6 series kernel
- Apogee Alta
- SBIG ST and STL
- Includes SBIG CFW8, CFW10, and STL filter wheel control with filter names
- Allows an external filter wheel and supports the Optec IFW filter wheels
- Focus, single, and multiple frames with automatic file storage
- FITS file format with exposure, camera, telescope, object and filter header information
- Interactive image display and analysis with SAOimage ds9
- Graphical subarea selection through ds9 region selection
- Remote operation and command line control with INDI
- Under development ...
- Improved XPA features
- A link to the telescope control for guiding corrections
- Scripting, including a web-based client
- User manual
XmCCD creates FITS image files with
comprehensive header information and displays the images using ds9. Images
may be processed for dark subtraction and
flat fielding with the FITS file utilities that are in our Alsvid package.
Image J and CinePaint, open source 32-bit image processing programs, are
recommended
for image editing and multi-color image visualization.
Last update: December 12, 2011
kielkopf at louisville dot edu
