Hi Jasem, maybe it would be helpful to add filters and filter wheel controls.
BTW, do you have a date to launch this planetary module?

Andres

There is no launch date, I didn't even start on it. Maybe this would make a good GSoC project.

Please put in a histogram and some way to stretch it manually. I am doing solar work and the histogram is the most important tool

+1 to histogram. Its essential to judge the right exposure levels.
I particularly like the planet profiles that Firecapture allows you to setup. Thats a nice one to have too.

Guess this is a dead duck now? I tried to install FireCapture but it did not want to run. The Java included probably was 32bit? Would it not be possible to recompile FireCapture for 64bit and include it as an optional package in StellarMate, with optimized default settings for the RPi environment? I guess that with 8Gb version of RPi, using large fast memory over USB3, the RPi would cope with it.

Indeed, it IS 32 bit! We need to import the 32bit architecture.

I tried to get it working on stellarmate: groups.io/g/firecapture/message/2885
The FC screen opens, but a weird java popup with no content blocks me from going further. Very disappointing. Nevertheless, I think the Pi is not strong enough (even the Pi4 with lots of RAM) to handle planetary capturen (but I do not know, because, I can not test).

Cheers, Axel

Got got it run again with the installation procedure showed in the link above
Deleted the Firecapture folder in the home directory and restartet FC, so the settings had been newly recreated.

Cheers Ael.

One thing to keep in mind :

in DS photography, all the tools used to make your images, run natively under Linux. (Kstars/Ekos/INDI, Siril, Gimp ...)
In Planetary imaging, the best tools used, run natively (and only) under Windows (AS!3, Registax, Astrosurface ... )

Wine isn't really an option as it cripples literally the performances of the programs. (slower, incomplete functions, impossibility to use the output of a program as an input to another... )

So a planetary tab in Ekos will have to work at its best under WINDOWS ...

- Marc

Some thoughts ...

In planetary imaging, like in sports photography, speed is the key.
A typical planetary camera like an ASI290mm at full frame (1936x1096) delivers 130fps.
That means roughly 2x130x8 = 2Gb/s

Do you think a Raspberry Pi will be able to grab & write a SD card at such a speed without losing frames ?
Of course, you can use ROIs for planets, but for the moon, you'll need full frame.

- Marc

Marc post=93217 userid=5122
One thing to keep in mind :
So a planetary tab in Ekos will have to work at its best under WINDOWS ...

How would this work with INDI?

Marc post=93218 userid=5122
Some thoughts ...
Do you think a Raspberry Pi will be able to grab & write a SD card at such a speed without losing frames ?

My Pi 4 has an M.2 NVME disc and does not run from SD card anymore (1 TB!) This is just a simple add-on board with a USB3 connector. Switching is easy. Either use the imager (which is included in EKOS - but this did not work for me. Or simply use Raspberry Pi imager. You can do all this directly on the Pi. With raspi-config you can simply choose to start from USB (Pi4) So speed is not an issue, nor is disk space.

I finish my planetary imaging with PlanetarySystemStacker with runs natively under Linux, Windows and MacOSX.
github.com/Rolf-Hempel/PlanetarySystemStacker

github.com/Rolf-Hempel/PlanetarySystemSt...acker_User-Guide.pdf