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An Observatory Control System for the PANOPTES citizen-science project designed to help find transiting exoplanets! :telescope: :stars:
https://pocs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
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Camera Simulator #29

Closed wtgee closed 7 years ago

wtgee commented 8 years ago

Camera simulator needs to be able to produce images, including pointing images (ideally with some offset). Need a folder of test images to work with this.

joshwalawender commented 8 years ago

One way to do this without needing a folder of images, would be to have a tool which would generate an "image" by dropping gaussian stars down based on catalog positions. Something like this might already exist, so it would be worth looking around for one.

joshwalawender commented 8 years ago

Here's something that looks like it might do the trick. It's from the same developer as SExtractor. http://www.astromatic.net/software/skymaker

wtgee commented 8 years ago

Nice, thanks. We can either use this or one or two real images. We just need to be able to plate solve them then move them a tiny bit to check tracking/pointing etc.

Hopefully I'll be getting to this soon.

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Here's something that looks like it might do the trick. It's from the same developer as SExtractor. http://www.astromatic.net/software/skymaker

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wtgee commented 7 years ago

There are currently some dummy images in the test folder ($POCS/tests/data) and the camera simulator will just always use these as a file name. This allows for unning of the entire machine with a camera simulator. Additional features should be defined separately.