AstroImager is a powerful, but easy to use image capture application for the astrophotography. The built-in drivers support the following hardware:
- ATIK Titan Mono and Colour
- ATIK 3xx/4xx family CCDs
- ATIK One 6 and 9 (and its internal filter wheel)
- ATIK 11000/4000 CCDs
- ATIK VS and Infinity CCDs
- ATIK GP Mono (1280x960 and 640x480 8-bit modes only)
- ATIK EFW2 filter wheels
- Starlight Xpress CCDs (all USB 2.0 cameras)
- Starlight Xpress filter wheel
- Shoestring Astronomy FC USB Focuser controller
It can also be used as a client to any remote or local INDI server with any supported CCD, filter wheel or focuser.
AstroImager also controls the set point cooling and the mechanical shutter of the attached camera (if available). It can preview or capture and save images to selected folder with any file name prefix, count, duration and time lapse, browse captured images and show them in Finder, zoom and stretch them automatically or manually. It can measure FWHM and the drift of a selected star to help easier and faster focus and align your equatorial telescope mount. Captured images can be plate-solved using public astrometry.net service or local Astrometry for OS X application. Images are stored in FITS format using CFITSIO library with user defined keywords and can be debayered automatically during preview with custom offsets. Two separate filter name sets can be used for easier change of carousels. AstroImager is a member of our amateur astrophotography tools family including AstroTelescope, AstroGuider and FITS Preview.
You can download trial version of both AstroTelescope and AstroImager.
Version 2.0:
- AstroImager has simple focuser control panel (Shoestring FC USB controller is supported by built-in driver, any INDI compatible device can be connected if remote or local INDI Server is used).
- AstroImager has simple sequencer to capture sequences of images with configurable duration, time lapse, count, base file name, binning and filter.
- AstroImager can work with local Astrometry for OS X application (package itself is not a part of the application, but you can download it from our web site: h ttp://www.cloudmakers.eu/astrometry) .
- AstroImager PSF Info panel shows graph of FWHM and peak history.
- AstroImager can ignore INDI driver supplied filter names.
- OS X 10.9 or later
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