Monthly Archives: October 2013

Dehydrated to the core

It’s been a busy weekend fruit-wise. Yesterday the children and I collected some of our ripe dessert apples and cored, peeled and sliced them. It took about forty apples to fill our dehydrator which I left on overnight. The result … Continue reading

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Home made pasta sauce base

The days are getting shorter and the remaining tomatoes in the polytunnel don’t look like they’re getting that much riper, so today we picked about two thirds of the ripest, which actually turned out to be far more tomatoes than … Continue reading

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Fruits of my labour

A few days ago the children and I picked a decent basketful of crab apples from one of our trees. I reckon there must have been perhaps 3kg or so. A real pleasure as the last couple of years have … Continue reading

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Colour histogram and reticle for Linux capture app

Progress, progress… Here’s my reticle and the colour version of the histogram. I may add some options for changing the style of the reticle and splitting the histogram into three, but those are for later. I also killed a few … Continue reading

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Mono histogram for capture application

I have the histogram working for mono cameras now. Colour is more work, but that will follow shortly. It doesn’t look too exciting mind.

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ASI120MM capture support

Here’s capture support working in my new application for the ASI120MM, together with binning. I’m really not sure what use binning is for high frame rate image capture, but it works anyhow.

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Troubles with the ASI120MC

I started getting some problems with data from the ASI120MC in my capture application, with the image “tearing” or undebayered data appearing in what ought to be debayered frames as in these two examples: It turns out that the problem … Continue reading

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ASI120MC capture support

I’m now able to get an image from my ASI120MC: The colour is all wrong. It turns out that whilst the header file gives the image format define as “RGB24”, it’s actually BGR24. I can probably write them to an … Continue reading

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A new Linux planetary capture application

Astronomy-wise it’s been a fairly rubbish last month and a half. Here in the back end of beyond it’s been nearly permanently cloudy and there have been periods of several days where there’s been no hint of blue sky. In … Continue reading

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A 127 Mak Galaxy

I’d tried and failed before, but I had to have another pop at M33. I wasn’t expecting too much as this is the sort of target for which the Mak is very poorly suited. This is 80 minutes of RGB … Continue reading

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