New astro programs for Raspberry PI

[han59]

FYI,

Both the HNSKY (planetarium program) and ASTAP (astrometric solver, FITS viewer, stacking) are now available for the Raspberry PI.

I used an older version of the compiler for compiling HNSKY, so the menus don't look perfect but at least it works. See this as a ß version. The Tycho star catalog is included. You could add manually the star databases G16, G17 or G18  up to magnitude 18. See the HNSKY webpage.

The CCDCIEL imaging program can use ASTAP  for astrometric solving. The CDCCIEL program is also available for Raspberry PI (armhf). The ASTAP program with the included star databases will take about 500 mbytes disk space.

 

So there is now more choice for the Raspberry PI:

Planetarium programs: KSTARS, CDC, HNSKY

Imaging software: KSTARS, CCDCIEL

Astrometric solvers (Plate solvers): Astrometry.net, ASTAP

 

See above software as ß versions. Feedback is welcome. Improvements will come.

Han

[fozzybear]

Han

Just in the process of downloading both hnsky and astap onto my Pi running ubuntu with Rob's script on and rpi3 so will keep you updated

Regards?

Andy