Software to be used with this system is available in this page
Main camera control software (Mandatory to install)
It controls the camera system itself, featuring in a nutshell :
- exposure and gain automatic control contrôler (as function of night and day). Full manual control is possible.
- to process bayerized raw monochrome images into color images.
- manual or automatic constrast and luminosity tuning.
- to cancel out hot pixels using a dark frame, hot pixel list and automatic hot pixel removal.
- to display an overlay grid showing most famous astronomical objects (stars, Moon, Sun, planets..) Displays coordinate grid.
- to save image using the folowing formats (Jpeg, FIT and CPA) Jpeg quality parameter can be set by user..
- to create AVI compressed file using XVID free codec to create time lapse, user can set video length and frame rate.
- to upload automaticaly, by timer interval set by user, Jpeg and AVI files to be posted to user defined web site for remote supervision.
USB camera : v 1.2.2.6 driver
To be installed once camera connected
GIGE camera : v 1.2.1.713 driver
To be installed once camera connected to the network
Warning : do not use Imagine-source drivers, the GigE camera driver located in their website suffers from being reliable and camera will stop sending image after some hours.
All pieces of software are important for our all sky camera, and shall be mandatory installed, only drivers for USB or GigE camera shall be selected accordingly.
