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Analysis and image processing of data

AVIS FITS to viewer: It opens archives FITS and it supports the opening of multiple archives and to drag & to drop from the Explorer and other windows of Windows; it concerns archives of cameras CCD, like, for example, SBIG ST8, ST7, ST6, ST5, ST4, Starlight, Hisis, Pixcell and others. It concerns archives in gray scale in format tiff and TGA; it keeps in format FITS and it allows fast and simple modifications of the head of archives FITS; it exports archives like format TXT, RAW, TIF, TGA, BMP and JPEG; it supports WCS (World Coordinates System) and customized trowels. Aid online: complete documentation and introduction to format FITS. In English. 830 Kb (freeware, Win9X).

CCD: Program that, being based on the selection of the user of cameras CCD, telescopes and cameras (that can be added or be selected easily of the lists including), calculates the field amplitude, the resolution in pixels, the effective focal length, the focal ratio, the size of the chip, the approximated size of the object in the chip. Developed by the Astronomical Society of Southern New England. In English. 1.6 MB (freeware, Win9X).

CCD Astronomy: Utilities for the Cookbook camera. Program DIFFCALC: simulation of the limited diffraction of a star and images CCD. In English. 202 Kb (freeware, MS-DOS/Win).

Cookbook CCD Image Processing: Tools for the image processing with camera CCD Cookbook 245. In English. 1.6 MB (shareware, Win9X).

ImageTool: Program for the processing and very complex and highly recommendable analysis of images. In English. 1.4 MB + 1.4 369 MB + Kb (freeware, Win9X/NT).

Iris: It offers numerous and powerful functions of astronomical image processing. Particularly she is optimized to remove all the party to the images coming from cameras CCD. Can load and keep images in formats FITS, PIC or BMP; and she can also read the images of the Buil-Thouvenot Atlas, a CD-ROM that contains 4,649 images of 6,600 objects of the deep sky. From the window Command numerous orders in way can be executed online. These orders are a subgroup of the available ones in the QMiPS32 program. The way online of Iris is extremely practitioner, specially to conduct repetitive operations. Finally, it has functions of aid for camera CCD Audine. In English or French. 1.6 MB + 3.6 MB (aid in format pdf) (freeware, Win9X/NT).

OSLO LT: Program of professional optical design. Splendid for specialists and useful for most of the fans. In English. 6.3 MB (freeware, Win9X/NT/2000).

RegiStar:The RegiStar program automatically aligns astrofotography without intervention of the user. In English. 2.1 MB (shareware, Win9X/NT/2000).

Utilities of astrofotografía: Set of four utilities:

  1. ST4-calc: program for the handling of camera CCD (15 Kb).
  2. FOCAL-calc: program for astrofotografía with telescope (18 Kb).
  3. ASTRO-calc: program to calculate the photographic exhibition of objects of the Solar System (11 Kb).
  4. ECLIPSE-calc: program for photography of the Sun (14 Kb).

All the programs, in Italian (freeware, Win9X/NT).

Satellite Tracker: Program of pursuit of satellites for the telescopes Meade LX200. In English. 449 Kb (freeware, Win9X/NT).

 

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