XmCCD
Linux Software for Astronomical CCD Camera Control
- The current version ...
- Provides an adaptable open source astronomical camera control platform for Linux
- Adds new support for ASI/ZWO cooled monochrome cameras
- Continues support for orphaned Oxford/Andor/Apogee CCD cameras
- Includes many Diffraction Limited/SBIG CCD cameras and filter wheels
- Offers a external filter wheel option that supports the Optec IFW filter wheels
- Provides focus, single, and multiple frames with automatic file storage
- Uses FITS file storage based on CFITSIO with exposure, camera, telescope, object and filter header information
- Offers a familiar interactive SAOimage ds9 display
- Works with AstroImageJ for interactive data processing and exoplanet light curve photometry
- Integrates with observatory systems through XPA and Python scripting
- Tested autoguiding with Python and ds9
- Scripted science image autoguiding with a local Astrometry.net server
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 in real time with AstroImageJ,
or with our batch processing Alsvid package.
Last update: February 11, 2021
kielkopf at louisville dot edu
