AstraLite is software for deepsky astrophotography and live stacking on low power PCs (like rapsberry Pi or Orange Pi)
! The program is under active development!
AstraLite uses INDI server to work with astrophotography hardware. See https://www.indilib.org/download.html to install INDI
Compiled binaries and discussion here: https://www.indilib.org/forum/clients/13006-astralite-simple-indi-client-for-astrophotography.html
- UI for INDI devices control
- Live images preview
- Saving RAW frames
- Live stacking
- Dark and flat files creation
- Light frame quality filter
- Simple guiding by main camera
- Dithering
- Autofocus
- Manual mount control
- Sky map
- Guider camera support
- INDI driver crash recovery
- Plate solving
- Sigma clipping for live staking (not sure this is possible with low memory usage)
- Live view from camera in video mode
- Rust compiler: https://www.rust-lang.org/tools/install
- Libs and tools:
sudo apt install gcc libgtk-3-dev build-essential
- Rust compiler (i686-pc-windows-gnu): https://www.rust-lang.org/tools/install
- MSYS: https://www.msys2.org/
- Libs and tools (type inside MSYS command line):
pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-gtk3
pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-pkg-config base-devel mingw-w64-x86_64-gcc
Don't forget to set your PATH
environment variable to point to the mingw64\bin
directory of MSYS
To build optimized binaries just type
cargo build --release