Monday 26 March 2018

A new release of AstroDMx Capture for Linux

Nicola has released a new version of AstroDMx Capture for Linux.




Changelog (version 0.10.2.0)


Full support for the QHY-5L-II MONO
Full support for the QHY-5L-II COLOUR
Other QHY cameras should work but have not been tested
Histogram Added. The histogram supports both Linear and Logarithmic scales and shows channels in RGB combined, Luminance, RGB Average, Red, Green, Blue or Greyscale.
Histogram image saved as a TIFF file
Automatic Exposure, Automatic Gain and Automatic White Balance improvements (If supported by camera)
Frame integration now works for all cameras operating in 8-bit modes
Improvements to the camera log file
Improvements to the over-exposure markers
Over-exposure markers now have a sensitivity control
Improvements to the Reticle
Custom colours not allowed for the over-exposure markers and the reticle
Right-click to reset controls now works for the exposure control
Reset all controls implemented
Long exposure countdown indicator improvements
Long exposures are now cancelled before the new exposure is set
Installers now create menus to launch the software
Detailed debugging mode added - which can be invoked from the menus or manually by passing -D to the astrodmx binary
Bug fixes and other improvements

Release 0.10.2.0 has full support for:

Astronomy cameras
QHY 5L-II-M (USB2.0, 12 bit ADC)
QHY 5L-II-C  (USB2.0, 12 bit ADC)
DMK 21AU04.AS (8 bit ADC)
DFK 21AU04.AS (8 bit ADC)
DBK 21AU04.AS (8 bit ADC)
ZWO ASI120MC (USB2.0, 12 bit ADC)
ZWO ASI120MC-S (USB3.0, 12 bit ADC)
ZWO ASI120MM-S (USB3.0, 12 bit ADC)
ZWO ASI178MC (USB3.0, 14 bit ADC)
SVBONY T7 W2568A High-speed camera (USB2.0, 12 bit ADC)
Bresser MicrOcular Full HD Digital Camera (8 bit ADC)
SVBONY SV105 HD (8 bit ADC)
Orion Starshoot Solar System Color Imager IV
Altair (Orion Starshoot USB eyepiece) (USB2.0, 8 bit ADC)
USB cameras
ELP 1.3Mp CMOS board-level HD USB camera (8 bit ADC)
Lucky Zoom 5Mp microscope USB CMOS camera (8 bit ADC)
Vimicro USB2.0 UVC PC camera (e.g. Maplin USB2.0 Microscope) (8 bit ADC)
USB Capture cards
KWORLD DVD MAKER 2 (8 bit ADC)
UVC capture card (Motion-JPEG only) (8 bit ADC)
EasyCAP (Motion-JPEG only) (8 bit ADC)
USB webcams
Sweex WC066 HD webcam (8 bit ADC)
Sweex WC070 ViewPlus (8 bit ADC)
Sweex WC035V2 VGA webcam (8 bit ADC)
Philips SPC900NC including SPC800 and Philips 740 flashed to SPC900NC (8 bit ADC)
Philips 690 Vesta Pro Webcam (8 bit ADC)
Logitech HD C525 (8 bit ADC)
Microsoft LIFECAM 2 (8 bit ADC)
Creative Webcam Live (8 bit ADC) Bayer output only.
All Video 4 Linux cameras.
ZWO filter wheel

Nicola is now working on implementing FITs files and the Atik 314L CCD camera

Watch this space!