Audela Features

Windows,

GNU/Linux

OSX: very basic support for Mac OS-X (please help us!).

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

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)

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 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

Automatic pre-processing (make a dark frame, a flat field, registering)

Astrometric calibration

Photometric calibration with one picture or a serie (CDR/CDL)

Spectrometry: SpcAudace (automatic spectrum processing, spectral astrophysics analysis…)

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

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

FITS files (16 bits or floating), colour FITS (48-bit RGB)

JPEG files

DAT files (spcaudace)

RAW files(crw, cr2, nef, etc.)

AVI files