Table of Contents
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: 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
