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Collimation Circles, app for easy telescope collimation

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sajmons

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I have made app Collimation Circles, to help with telescope collimation process. App was inspored by Mire De Collimation written by Gilbert Grillot and Al's Collimation Aid. You can get it here: https:github.com/sajmons/CollimationCircles.

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markse68

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Nice! I’ve tried Mire de Collimation but not Al’s. The slightly awkward thing with Mire is resizing the circles which you can only seem to do by dragging the window bigger- having a numerical scaling feature looks like a big improvement. Like the Ocal tool- neat! If only you could adjust focus of the camera too ;) This should be great with a guide cam or webcam though- I’ll give it a go.

(small typo- should be thickness)

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There is new version 1.0.3 available!

Changes are:

Fixed language change (window must be closed to changes take effect)
UI tweaks for easier side by side positioning
App remember it's state after closing and load that state on start
Check for update when application starts

https://github.com/sajmons/CollimationCircles/releases

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Hi. great app. 

Thanks for the effort. Here are some pics.

BTW, I have some sugestions. Could you define fixed keys for resizing of the selected circle. Because if i click the keys of resizing for instance, when i get to the image and move the arrows it changes the resizing but if i change the position of the window, and i move the arrow keys, the window moves. 

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I'm verry happy to anounce new release of Collimation circles application! And it's really exciting one, expecially for macOS users!

Collimation Circles Application is now offically supported on macOS 12+

Download: https://github.com/sajmons/CollimationCircles/releases

Official WebSite: https://saimons-astronomy.webador.com/software/collimation-circles

Added global center offset support for patterns
Added new setting for main window opacity
Added French language thanks to Vincent Vidal
Added social button bar
Added GitHub issue button

Fixed Transparency issue for main window on MacOS
Fixed CheckBox for pattern visibility not working
Fixed saving and restoring window position
Fixed setting window not apearing when main windows closes in detached mode
Fixed some minor issues

Change shortcut keys requires CTRL on Windows or ⌘ on macOS to be pressed
Change upgrade to AvaloniaUI 11
Change keyboard shortcuts are now inside collapsible pannel
Change Refactoring of UI
Change Optimized translations

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sajmons

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I'm happy to anounce that there is new version of Collimation Circles 2.2.2 available!

Download: https://github.com/sajmons/CollimationCircles/releases

Official WebSite: https://saimons-astronomy.webador.com/software/collimation-circles

Added count property to bahtinov mask for easy TriBahtinov mask support
Added property for controling patern opacity
Added pattern max count limitation

Fixed main window movement not working when settings window is detached
Fixed for new version dialog below main window when always on top enabled
Fixed icon on windows not embeded inside exe file
Fixed when settings window was detached and default button was clicked, there was duplicated settings window and pannel
Fixed cutting off of keyboard shortcut text

Updated nuget packages, AvaloniaUI 11.0.3
Updated french translation

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Vash

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Thanks so much. I really like this software. 

It might be useful to others, many zwo planetary cams fit inside a 2" focuser and the included wide angle lenses work well for collimation. 

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At last! Version 3.0 of Collimation Circles is here!

You can read all about it here: https://saimons-astronomy.webador.com/1634837_collimation-circles-3-0-is-here

And download it from here: https://github.com/sajmons/CollimationCircles/releases

Summary of changes:

Added Ability to connect to camera stream and display it in background
Added Log file console support
Added NLog library for application information logging to file
Added Option for show keyboard shortcuts in main window
Added Inclination shortcut
Added links to patreon web page and social networks
Added PayPal donation button to About dialog
Added Requirements check on app startup
Added Missing translation

Fixed fatal error when list of shapes is empty and user loads JSON file
Fixed issue https://github.com/sajmons/CollimationCircles/issues/13
Fixed Segmentation fault on Linux
Fixed AvaloniaUI NuGet packages Fixed VideoLAN.LibVLC references

Change Item visibility CheckBox replaced with ToggleButton
Change About tab moved to is't own dialog
Change Removed keyboard shortcuts from settings Tab
Change Simplified settings CheckBox-es
Change UI/UX optimizations
Change Upgrade .Net 8
Change Updated NuGet packages to latest versions
Change Undock button size and position
Change Code and performance optimizations
Change Translation updates

Best wishes to all!

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sajmons

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I very happy to anounce, that new version of Colimation Circles 3.1.0 is awailable.

You can download it here: http://bit.ly/42yJ3BO

Whats new:
Added UVC and Raspberry Pi camera support by @sajmons in #17
Fix for issue #15 when saving JSON file if UI language is not English app crashes by @sajmons in #16

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Best regards

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sajmons

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I wrote series of articles about advanced newtonian collimation and how it's done with Collimation Circles application.

All three parts are available here: 

I hope you will find it usefull.

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On 13/01/2024 at 18:13, Vash said:

It might be useful to others, many zwo planetary cams fit inside a 2" focuser and the included wide angle lenses work well for collimation. 

How did you manage to get focus please? I tried with my ASI224mc with no joy.

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