Sunday 17 November 2019

A new version of AstroDMx Capture for Linux

Nicola has just released version 0.64.1 of AstroDMx Capture for Linux, including the Raspberry Pi version.
The software can be downloaded from https://www.linux-astro-imaging.uk/



Work has now started on the implementation of the SVBONY SV305 camera in AstroDMx Capture for Linux.

Changelog for version 0.64.1

Added DSLR camera support.

Significant performance optimisations.

Added display performance options.

Significant preview display improvements.

Added hardware accelerated preview display mode.

Mouse to pan around the preview display (OpenGL mode).

UI Tweaks and optimisations.

Camera controls, such as gain or gamma, can now be made during long exposures without cancelling the previous control.

Values can now be typed into the display control UI.

Significant improvements to the way that the application stores settings.

The main camera controls can now be hidden.

Improvements for failed exposures handling.

Saturation and Reticle colours are now stored.

Display controls / transforms no longer have an affect on frame rates.

Added auto USB bandwidth and USB speed functions for ZWO cameras.

Fixed possible font issues on some Linux distributions.

The main control area size now stored.

Added SER time stamps.

Added mouse over help to many UI controls.

Improved function to scale the live preview.

Saturation and reticle and now be changed in real-time.

Colour space and resolution can now be changed during long exposures.

Fixed a problem that sometimes caused the main controls to jump position.

QHY SDK updated to version 6.0.5

ZWO SDK updated to version 1.14.0715

Other bug fixes and improvements.

Temporarily removed the reset all controls reset function.