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K3CCDTools
Interesting Features
Video Capturing Mode
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1, Several video capture
modes:
a,
standard video sequence capturing
enables to capture video
sequence at full speedUseful for:
- Planetary
imaging
- Moon and Sun
imaging
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b,
single frame capturing
with adjustable period and repeat countUseful for:
- Getting frames
for Moon mosaic
- Time lapse
animations
not only for astronomy,
you can capture e.g. flowering of
flower
or behaviour of some animals
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c,
timed video sequence capturing
periodically captures video
sequencesUseful
for:
- Capturing AVI
files for planetary animations
e.g. rotation of Mars and
Jupiter,
movement of Jupiter moons, etc.
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d,
SC long exposure mode
enables to capture longer
exposures from 1/2s up to 1 hour
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compatible with SC long exposure
modificationUseful for:
- it also includes
timed capturing
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supports parallel/serial port versions
- supports WinNT, Win2000, WinXP
- CCD amplifier ON/OFF switch directly
in long exposure panel
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e,
JG long exposure mode (SAC8 camera)
enables to capture longer
exposures from 1/2s up to 1 hourUseful for:
- it also includes
timed capturing
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supports WinNT, Win2000, WinXP
- CCD amplifier ON/OFF switch directly
in long exposure panel
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Batch capturing in SC and JG long
exposure modes Useful for:
- Automation of
long exposure capture process
(several exposure lengths for the
same object)
- for making
dark frames at the end of session
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2, Brightness Level Meter
for adjusting the best
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3,
Drift Explorer
- Realtime
measurement of Periodic Error or mount
drift
- Autoguiding
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4, Set of useful features
- Reticle for
easier object positioning & watching
useful also during polar
aligning or drift measurement
- Log files with
details about exposure time, duration
- Incremental
and advanced file naming
prevents
from rewriting of previously captured
file, enables to put date and time into
file name
- Remembering of
last set capture parameters
including
capture frame size, frame rate (unlike
programs bundled with webcams)
- Real
time FFT analysis of video in capture
preview
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Sequence Processing Mode
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Supported operations:
- processing of
AVI files or image sequences, viewing
them frame by frame
- automatic and
manual frames aligning (registering)
- stacking/summing
video/image sequence
- selection of
rectangle area for each frame
- all frame
settings can be saved to project files
and can be loaded later for further
processing
- dark frames
and flat fields processing
- enhanced
modes of dark frame processing (4 modes)
- export of
frames or frames' rectangles to BMP, JPG,
PNG, TIFF, FIT16, FIT32 or AVI files
- result of
stacking / integration can be saved to
BMP, JPG, PNG, TIFF or to 16-bit and 32-bit
FIT files
- automatic
selection of the best pictures and
sorting them according to quality (by
means of analysis of high spatial
frequencies)
- measuring of
angles and angle distances on images
- histogram
functions - they allow to extract the
most interesting information from the
result picture.
Histogram dialog includes the following
functions: Histogram stretching, gamma or
logarithmic brightness scale of image,
unsharp mask and blurring, loading and
saving processing parameters
- export of YUV420
(I420) AVI sequence to separate YUV
bitmaps
- FFT analysis
of image
- Planetary
Wizard for fast planetary stacking
- "If
Lighter" processing method (good for
e.g star trails)
- drag and Drop
and command line arguments support for
sequence processing
- possibility
of running multiple instances of K3CCDTools
Example of multiple instances of K3CCDTools:
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Last
Update: 03.03.2003
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