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CCDSoft Version 5 Information Site |
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CCDSoft Version 5 Information Site |
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CCDSoft's feature set can be extended using third-party automation software as well as CCDSoft Plug Ins to perform advanced features.
Automapper II - Free TPoint telescope mapping software that uses CCDSoft to acquire images and TheSky6 to control the telescope for automated pointing data acquisition.
CCDAutoPilot - Observatory control and automation software that can employ AutomaDome, CCDSoft and TheSky6.
CCD Commander - Observatory control and automation software that can employ AutomaDome, CCDSoft and TheSky6.
SBScripter - Automation software that can control CCDSoft and TheSky6.
The following third party Plug Ins can be used to extend CCDSoft's feature set.
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A CCDSoft Camera Plug In for altering the user to common errors.
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A CCDSoft Camera Plug In for Canon DSLR Cameras. |
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Marcelo Saavedra |
Batch or bulk cold and hot pixel removal tool
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See the author's zip file for a brief description of this plug in.
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See the author's zip file for a brief description of this plug in.
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Drift Error Graph (guiding Dx and Dy using separate graphics)
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See the author's zip file for a brief description of this plug in.
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Drift Error Graph 2 (guiding Dx versus Dy dispersion graphics - Bullseye type)
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See the author's zip file for a brief description of this plug in. |
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A free CCDSoft Camera Plug In for CCDSoft Version 5 that provides support for Meade DSI-c and DSI-Pro model CCD cameras.
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Free utility to graph guiding errors with CCDSoft V5.
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The MultiCombine plugin provides fast average, median, and trimmed-mean (also known as "sigma") combine functions as a CCDSoft plugin.
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DeBloomer is plug-in for CCDSoft that removes blooming from your images.
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This plug-in removes linear and radial gradients from CCD images.
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The one-shot color flat maker Plug-In works with CCDSoft to turn raw flats into normalized flats
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"I wrote this little tool called “The Dark Side” for CCDSoft V5 users that basically does nothing but automate the process of taking darks."
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QHY Model QHY5 and QHY8 Cameras
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"Dark Frame Manager automates the process of taking darks frames so one can build and maintain dark library with ease."
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AutoDither provides automatic dithering of guided exposures in CCDSoft by moving the guide star in a pre-defined pattern between exposures.
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Measure and plot in real-time for any star, any sub-frame, or any image the full-width, half maximum (FWHM), half-flux diameter (HFD), aspect ratio, flux, centroid, peak value, and more.
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QSI Camera Drivers |
Plug-in for CCDSoft from Software Bisque
From QSI Home Page:
"Because one shoe doesn't fit all, QSI also supplies the necessary plug-in for CCDSoft, the popular image processing and camera control software from Software Bisque."
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QHY5 (CMOS Guider), Orion StarShoot Autoguider and QHY8 Camera Drivers
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Tom (a mathematician by trade) writes camera drivers as a hobby. |
CCDSoft has "application programming interfaces" for the following hardware devices.
CCD cameras
filter wheels
focusers
This allows software developers to write custom "device drivers" for unsupported devices. If you would like to develop your own device driver for CCDSoft, contact Software Bisque and we'll send you sample source code and documentation.
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Software Bisque, Inc. 912 12th Street Golden, CO 80401-1114 USA
Phone: (303) 278-4478 Fax: (303) 278-0045
Web Site: http://www.bisque.com Technical Support: http://www.bisque.com/support |
