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 | | From: | Cervin | | Subject: | Re: ANNOUNCE: AISF and ASTRIX | | Date: | Sat, 22 Jan 2005 12:37:10 -0000 |
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"heywood floyd" a écrit dans le message de news:
c5orfd$c1$1@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU...
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> Hello,
> For the past few months the Virginia Astronomical Instrumentation
> Laboratory has been working on a piece of software to control its
> observing systems. These systems are built on the GNU/Linux Operating
> System. The system we have designed is a new form of modular instrument
> control. In the spirit of the GNU/Linux operating system we are making
> this framework open source.
> The framework called the Astronomical Instrumentation Software Framework,
> or AISF. The goal of the framework is to provide simple functions for
> observing tasks, such as exposing a CCD frame or writing a FITS image to
> the disk. These tasks are handled with one or two uniform function calls
> for all instruments. This makes it easy for even novice programmers to
> automate data acquisition tasks.
> The ASTRIX program is built on top of this framework and is designed to
> take full advantage of this system. With the creation an environment that
> competes with most commercial software packages like MaximDL/CCD or
> CCDsoft, ASTRIX will hopefully give the community the opportunity to build
> a tailored easy to use graphical image acquisition system that utilizes
> all modern commercial CCD cameras.
> Though the development of this software is in its early stages we believe
> that the software and the framework it uses could allow the observer much
> more flexibility. We encourage the community to help in development by
> giving us feedback on the functions you would like software like this to
> perform and your feedback on how it looks and or functions. For those of
> you with programming experience we would like for you to help by
> contributing some of your time and energy in improving the software, by
> submitting patches and taking care bug reports and documentation issues.
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> Thank you for reading this email, the project website is:
> http://aisf.sourceforge.net
> Please feel free to email me at aws4y@astsun.astro.virginia.edu if you
> have any questions about the project or how you may get involved.
>
> -Aaron Smith
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