====== Audela Features ======

==== Operating Systems ====

   * Windows,
   * GNU/Linux
   * OSX: very basic support for Mac OS-X (please help us!).

==== Aiming and controlling equipment ====

   * Align assistant with the polar scope (Takahashi or EQ6)
   * Align assistant with the King method
   * Focusing assistant
   * Pipeline for the aiming model
   * GOTO function using integrated catalogs (planets, asteroids, Messier objects, reference stars, NGC, IC, Moon)
   * GOTO function using another charting planetarium tool (Guide, Carte du ciel , Skychart)
   * Remote control from a computer
   * Check position and time via GPS (through a serial or Ethernaude link)
   * Control of filter wheels
   * Virtual control pad
   * Autoguiding
   * Supported telescopes : LX200 protocol (with special features of Audecom, Skysensor, losmandy, It-lente, Mbartels), Ouranos, Temma, Ascom, Celestron
   * Link: serial port, USB/Serial adapter

==== Capturing Images ====

   * Capture modes: serial, continuous, windowed, binning, scan, video.
   * Capturing videos with a Webcam (included Linux since 2.0.20110925).
   * Characteristics of the optics (CCD field, binning, focal lengths, etc.).
   * Capturing scans (drift-scan and normal scan)
   * Display of a reticle for centering purposes
   * Pipeline for supernovae survey
   * Pipeline for asteroid photometry
   * Supported cameras: Audine, Hi-Sis, SBIG, CB245, Starlight, Kitty, Webcam, TH78521, SRC1300XTC, Canon EOS, Coolpix, Andor
   * Supported links: parallel port, USB port, Ethernaude, Quickremote (USB/parallel converter), Grabbers
   * Long exposure option for webcams and DSLRs (via serial port, USB/serial adapter, parallel port or QuickRemote interface)

==== Displaying Images ====

   * Zoom, mirror, windowing, full screen
   * Transfer functions (linear, log, exponential, arc-tangent).
   * Automatic adjustment of viewing thresholds.
   * Changing colour palettes
   * Multi-window display
   * Viewer with animation or blinking

==== Processing Images ====

   * Processing one image (add , subtract, divide, etc.)
   * Processing series of images (register, add, subtract, etc.)
   * Geometric operations (mirrors, windowing, resampling)
   * Optimizing dark frame, subtracting sky background
   * Filters (high pass, low pass, gaussian, median)
   * Wavelets, logarithms
   * Statistics on the image, Fwhm, Flow, Photocentre
   * Histogram, section
   * Image selection
   * Processing colour images (RAW->CFA, CFA->RGB, R+G+B->RGB, etc.)
   * Direct and inverse Fourier Transformation
   * Convolution
   * Deconvolution

==== Advanced Processing of Images ====

   * Automatic pre-processing (make a dark frame, a flat field, registering)
   * Astrometric calibration
   * Photometric calibration with one picture or a serie (CDR/CDL)
   * Spectrometry: [[http://spcaudace.free.fr/|SpcAudace]] (automatic spectrum processing, spectral astrophysics analysis...)

==== General Settings ====

   * Languages (10 availables)
   * Observer location
   * Time (local, UT, ST), time zone, summer/winter
   * External editors/browsers (PDF, HTML, text, image browser)
   * Selection of UI colours (with night vision)
   * Saving user preferences

==== Scripts ====

   * Writing customized scripts in TCL
   * Models and examples of scripts: photometrie (calaphot.tcl) , asteroid occultation (titania.tcl), etc.
   * Function library:
   * LIB TT: pre-processing of astronomical images
   * LIB MC: celestial mechanics calculations
   * LIB GSL: matrix calculation
   * LIB BLT: trace of curves
   * LIB Audela: camera and telescope management, and image buffer

==== Formats of Supported Files ====

   * FITS files (16 bits or floating), colour FITS (48-bit RGB)
   * JPEG files
   * DAT files (spcaudace)
   * RAW files(crw, cr2, nef, etc.)
   * AVI files