AstraLite

AstraLite is software for deepsky astrophotography and live stacking on low power PCs (like rapsberry Pi or Orange Pi)

! The program is under active development !

AstraLite uses INDI server to work with astrophotography hardware. See https://www.indilib.org/download.html to install INDI

Compiled binaries and discussion here: https://www.indilib.org/forum/clients/13006-astralite-simple-indi-client-for-astrophotography.html

Features

• UI for INDI devices control
• Live images preview
• Saving RAW frames
• Live stacking
• Dark and flat files creation
• Light frame quality filter
• Simple guiding by main camera
• Dithering
• Autofocus
• Manual mount control
• PHD2 support for dithering

Future plans

• Sky map
• INDI driver crash recovery
• Plate solving
• Sigma clipping for live staking (not sure this is possible with low memory usage)
• Live view from camera in video mode

How to build AstraLite

Prerequisites for Linux

• Rust compiler: https://www.rust-lang.org/tools/install
• Libs and tools:

  sudo apt install gcc libgtk-3-dev build-essential

Prerequisites for MS Windows

• Rust compiler (i686-pc-windows-gnu): https://www.rust-lang.org/tools/install Note! You have to install -gnu (not -msvc) toolchain:

  rustup-init.exe --default-toolchain=stable-x86_64-pc-windows-gnu --default-host=x86_64-pc-windows-gnu

• MSYS: https://www.msys2.org/
• Libs and tools (type inside MSYS command line):

  pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-gtk3
  pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-pkg-config base-devel mingw-w64-x86_64-gcc

Don't forget to set your PATH environment variable to point to the mingw64\bin directory of MSYS

How to build for you platform

To build optimized binaries for your current platform, just type

cargo build --release

Building and creating deb-packages for arm64, armhf and x64_86 platforms

Prerequisites

• Install podman or docker (I prefer podman):

  sudo apt install podman

• Install cross https://github.com/cross-rs/cross :

  cargo install cross --git https://github.com/cross-rs/cross

  How to build

  Execute build_cross.sh. Once build_cross.sh has finished running, you will find the deb packages in the dist folder.