Hi,
I am one of the core developers of lin_guider.
I want to add colour support for Starlight Xpress cameras to lin_guider.
In order to do it I need some help from the owners of the colour SX cameras.
I can not figure out from the documentation how the camera reports different
colour pattens and i have only mono camera for development. That is why
I need some test code to be executed on a linux box with colour SX
camera connected to it. Please help!
To run this code you need g++ and libusb-1.0 development installed.
To install them on Ubuntu/Debian/Mint:
$ sudo apt-get install g++ libusb-1.0-0-dev
To compile the code run:
$ make
To run the test tool (The SX camera should be connected):
$ sudo ./sx_test 1
The output should look something like this:
=== CUT ===
sxList: 'LodeStar' [0x1278, 0x507] found
Camera params:
name: LodeStar MONO (model:70 FW:0x1000a)
image: 752 x 580 (16 bpp)
pix_size: 8.60 x 8.30 um
color_matrix: 0x0fff
extra_caps: 0x05
Starting Exposure 1.00s...
Saving Image: LodeStar-MONO-752x580-16-0x0fff-1.00s.fits
=== CUT ===
Please Point the camera to something meaningful and choose
appropriate exposure time (for example 0.1 s) and run it again:
$ sudo ./sx_test 0.1
Open the produced fits file with your favorite fits viewer and
if it looks ok. Please send the output of the program and the
saved fits file to:
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The images should not be Astro images, any image should
do as long as there are some details on it and I can guess
the correct colours
Thank you!
Rumen Bogdanovski