Nightview's features

• Nightview is software dedicated for control of a CCD camera and telescope.
• Nightview provides: setup exposure type (dark, light), binning mode, exposure duration on the CCD camera and acquire of the exposure.
• Nightview has fuctions for selection of any filter in a filter wheel.
• With Nightview, it is possible to get and set of temperature of a camera CCD chip.
• Nightview allows slew your telescope to any position on the sky.
• Nightview camera and telescope components works together, so every image contains information about telescope position.
• Nightview is designed multiplatformly. All of features are supported under Linux. A client part works under FreeBSD (and probably other Unix-like environments).
• There is no dependence on a desktop environment.
• Graphical user interface is provided by wxWidgets.
• Command line clients are intended for batch processing and scripting.
• At present time, only SBIG cameras on USB port are supported.
• Nightview is prepared in mind of architecture of type server - client. All devices are accesible via a network.
• The telescope driver can be simple ported on various home-made mounts.
• The standard FITS format has been choosed for all image data manipulation.
• There is a mode for pointing of long exposure series.
• An internet access to SIMBAD archive is implemented.

Last modification: 2009-01-22 16:06:52