I have put together a program that calibrates astrophotography images using a technique I developed over the past few years. My program is intended to help beginner astrophotographers learn and begin using master DARK, BIAS, FLAT and DARKFLAT frames. My technique uses DARK frame optimization which is a real game-changer because it all but eliminates the need to generate a huge library of master DARKs for each ISO/Exposure/Temperature. I also don't need to use dithering with my guiding which gives me a very simple method to follow. Astrophotography is a very complicated hobby so I am always looking for KISS methods that give me consistent results.
I attached a flyer for you to read more about my program. In the coming week I will post here a dropbox link for the installation files. I have decided to use a PAYPAL donations funding method to help offset my costs and efforts. I program exclusively using a entirely graphical programming language called LabVIEW. It tends to be a little big on disk space (~200Mb for it's run-time engine and then 4Mb for my program). Hopefully donations will cover my subscription costs for maintaining my LabVIEW license.
In future I also hope to offer some additional tools based upon software I have already developed and use. I have a differential flexure compensation tool which analyses images in real-time and instructs PHD2 guiding to slowly slew it's guiding setpoint to virtually eliminate differential flexure. I also have a
Peter Wolsley
Quilting Mouse Technologies
