Ekos support for EAA with plugin extensions to astap or iris or...
Internal implementation can stack guided frames directly, or register frames roughly, or use quick guiding to realign frames.
Stacking means Capture-ing frames to temporary files, and displaying the averaged result in FITSViewer.
For each new frame, the stack needs to be registered and averaged.
Stack could be reset manually, but if registering, large offsets should auto reset the stack.
Simple registering is calculating global offset and rotation given a low count of sources. We can expect those sources to be close from each other: we drop unrelated sources, we find the center of each, and calculate the offset and rotation for all the frames. We consolidate the result as a FITS frame and ask FITSViewer to display it as a preview.
A new exposure should be made in the background, if calculation doesn't exceed exposure time.
TallFurryMan
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Ekos support for EAA with plugin extensions to astap or iris or... Internal implementation can stack guided frames directly, or register frames roughly, or use quick guiding to realign frames. Stacking means Capture-ing frames to temporary files, and displaying the averaged result in FITSViewer. For each new frame, the stack needs to be registered and averaged. Stack could be reset manually, but if registering, large offsets should auto reset the stack. Simple registering is calculating global offset and rotation given a low count of sources. We can expect those sources to be close from each other: we drop unrelated sources, we find the center of each, and calculate the offset and rotation for all the frames. We consolidate the result as a FITS frame and ask FITSViewer to display it as a preview. A new exposure should be made in the background, if calculation doesn't exceed exposure time.