Initial attempts were made to automate the first few stages of processing of a FITS format file from the Seestar S50. The application coded was called 'AstroSmartProc' (ASP) - short for Astronomy Smart Telescope Processor and the GUI is shown below.
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| AstroSmartProc (ASP) GUI |
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| Seestar S50 Capture of M42 - Processed by ASP |
ASP utilised the usual processes for its automation tasks - but I became intrigued to see if some alternate method or methods could be developed which might perform better. To this end a second application was put into development. The function of this application was limited to analysing the data and testing various algorithms.
This second application is named 'Seestar Image Viewer' (SIV).
Development of this application is ongoing at the time of writing.