Qastrocam
Qastrocam is a capture program that can work with any video4linux device. Its main purpose is to do astrophotography. It can control a telescope to do guiding with the images received from the video device. It can also control the extended features of a webcam modified to do long exposure (several seconds) captures.
| Tags | multimedia Graphics Capture Scientific/Engineering Astronomy |
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| Licenses | GPL |
Recent releases
- 24 May 2005 06:53
Changes: The GUI for the tracking module was improved. A new telescope mount model (MTS) was added. The build system and some other minor things were improved. This should be last beta release before 4.0.
- 15 Feb 2005 09:11
No changes have been submitted for this release.
- 04 Feb 2005 04:20
Changes: In this release, the ppdev module is used to control the parallel port, and there is telescope guiding support for the MCU update kit.
- 11 Jan 2005 10:32
Changes: This release has a helper for king alignment methods, new display modes, and a French translation.
- 05 Jan 2004 05:42
Changes: The SDL library can be used to provide a blazing fast display. The keyboard and mouse-wheel can be used to control all the sliders in the GUI. Saving and restoring the settings of the pwc webcam now work. A lot of other small improvements and bugfixes were made.
