Last update:12/08/2003
Warning !
ASTROSNAP has moved : http://www.astrosnap.com
Astro-Snap allows you to take astronomical pictures at low cost with a WEBCAM.
- Simple image acquisition or real time integration.
- Long exposure acquisition with the following cameras (modified following
Steve Chambers' design)
: Philips Vesta-SC, Toucam-SC, Quickcam Pro3000-SC.
- Image resolution up to 800x600
- Focusing aid based on a star's apparent size (FWHM), along with sound indicator
for remote tuning
- Focusing aid on complex objects,along with a sound indicator for remote
tuning
- Image stabilization and automatic tracking of the object in the camera's
field of view.
- Automatic Dark or Flat-Field processing
- Can let you make pseudo long exposures without tracking needed.
- Automatic image selection based on each frame's quality (planetary imaging).
- Manual or automatic saving of bitmaps.
- Very fast and precise Polar aligning aid using two popular drift align methods
: Bigourdan and King.
- Can display a configurable graduated reticle
- Can measure objects in real time.
- Can measure the P.E. (periodic error) of your mount displaying a graph,
as well as tracking speed error.
- Can help you determine the declination of a star.
- Motion detection (for shooting stars).
And since version 1.3 :
- A new interface for long exposures
- It can now control telescopes (with a software handpad) with the following
interfaces : LX200, Achay (serial port ), Bonduelle parallel port).
- Autoguiding
- A new self-guiding feature for cameras modified with Steve Chambers' #2
mod.
- You can now also control focusing, if you're using an LX200 telescope with
the Meade electric focuser.
- Can do autofocusing with the above configuration.
- It shows Video image information : Saturation,
brightness values histogram.
- Can replay captured bitmap sequences as a video, and do light post processing
(aligning and stacking).
- A new polar aligning method has been implemented : the KING method
!!! Flash news !!!
-The new version 1.3e is
ready at last !!!
Fully supports Windows 2000/XP
(see the Download
section)
- AstroSnap Pro 2.0
(Shareware)
is currently being developed
(see the first
snapshots )
For any suggestion or if you need any information, please write to me: acanicio@club-internet.fr
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group (it's free !!)
You can post questions and get answers.
