FreeTure

A Free software to capTure meteors

FreeTure is a free open source (GPL license) meteor detection software used to monitor the sky with all-sky cameras to detect and record meteors and fireballs.

It is portable and cross-platform (Linux, Windows)

The project home page is http://fripon.org

Features

• Supports GigE cameras (Tested with Basler acA1300-30gm and DMK23G445)
• Supports USB 2.0 cameras (Tested with stk1160 and Pinnacle Dazzle DVC 100 video grabber, DMx 31AU03.AS)
• Supports USB 3.0 cameras through Aravis 0.5+ (Tested with Point Grey/FLIR BFLY-U3-23S6M-C and Aravis 0.6)
• Internal computation of sun ephemeris
• Night and daytime (experimental) meteor detection modes
• Fits format in output https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FITS
• Possibility to run regular or scheduled long exposure acquisition
• Possibility to stack frames in order to keep a kind of history
• Supports frame cropping aka region of interest (Tested with Point Grey/FLIR BFLY-U3-23S6M-C)

Examples