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25 minutes ago, rwilkey said:
Hi Fred, welcome from me too, what a lovely city you live in but I bet the light pollution is horrendous? Clear skies!
Indeed
I mentioned Paris to make a nice post title. I actually live about 30km away. Which allows me to capture deep sky objects without too much trouble
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Hi guys
Fred, here.
Late fourties frenchman with my eyes up in the sky since I was a boy.
The arrival of my son more that 10 years ago, with all his questions like 'Daddy, what is this big blue light up there ?' or 'Daddy, why this ? .... why that ?' made me go back seriously into books so I could answer all his questions.
As I'm a hobbyist photographer since ages, I started astrophoto 5 years ago with the simplest setup : my DSLR on a tripod. Boy did I learn a lot during that period ! I ended up buying a Star Adventurer to allow longer focal lengths and learned even more. Always thinking for a better future (gear-wise) I ended up sticking my good old DSLR on an EQ6-R. That will be good enough to host the optical instrument I'm still thinking about.
Besides all this, I'm a programmer and joined, a year ago, an Open Source software project aiming at providing a multi-platform live stacking solution. (More on this very shortly in the appropriate forum). We are almost ready with a quite good starting point, which is, I must admit it honestly, my main motivation for registering here and "advertising" it.
See you guys around & clear skies to all
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Annoucement : Astro Live Stacker software
in EEVA - Discussion
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Hi everyone
I am a proud member of a team working on a multi-platform live stacking solution : ALS (Astro Live Stacker => https://als-app.org)
It runs fine on PC (GNU/Linux and Windows 7 to 10), OSX and RaspBerry.
Current stable version is very basic : Polling a folder to detect new images (any FITS or DSLR RAW) then align + stack (Mean or Sum) + autostrech + levels + RGB balance.
ALS also has a built-in webserver so your pals at the astroclub can see the results, provided everyone is on the same network.
We are working hard on new features like Dark subtraction + Hot pixel removal and are providing nightly builds for you guys to try it out. Check out https://als-app.org/nightlies/
Handling image capture directly inside ALS using INDI protocol is on our roadmap too. check out our Github repo to know more about it
If you could give it a try and help us make ALS a fun & easy way to see and share all those wonders above our heads, that would be much appreciated !
Clear skies to all !
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Fred