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AstroSnap is a comprehensive application that will allow you to take and process astronomical pictures with a webcam. It can also replay captured bitmap sequences as a video, and do light post processing (aligning and stacking).

AstroSnap can measure the P.E. (periodic error) of your mount displaying a graph, as well as tracking speed error.

· Simple image acquisition or real time frame integration (standard or loop frame integration).
· Real time planetary video processing (at capture time)
· Long exposure acquisition with the following cameras (modified following Steve Chambers' design) : Philips Vesta-SC, Toucam-SC, Quickcam Pro3000-SC.
· Image resolution up to 800x600
· Focusing aid based on a star's apparent size (FWHM), along with sound indicator for remote tuning
· Focusing aid on complex objects,along with a sound indicator for remote tuning
· Image stabilization and automatic tracking of the object in the camera's field of view.
· Automatic Dark or Flat-Field processing
· Can let you make pseudo long exposures without tracking needed.
· Automatic image selection based on each frame's quality (planetary imaging).
· Manual or automatic saving of bitmaps.
· Very fast and precise Polar aligning aid using two popular drift align methods : Bigourdan and King.
· Can display a configurable graduated reticle
· Can measure objects in real time.
· Can help you determine the declination of a star.
· Motion detection (for shooting stars).
It can control telescopes (with a software handpad) with the following interfaces :
· LX200
· Achay (serial port )
· Bonduelle (parallel port)
· Kitsr'us kit model 74
· ASCOM
· Michael Koch's serial port Relay Interfaces (Currently woking on FS2 interface compatibility).
· Autoguiding
· A new self-guiding feature for cameras modified with Steve Chambers' #2 mod.
· You can now also control focusing, if you're using an LX200 telescope with the Meade electric focuser.
· Can do autofocusing with the above configuration.
· It shows Video image information : Saturation, brightness values histogram.
· A new polar aligning method has been implemented : the KING method