Documentation

Tutorial

Start by this tutorial to quickly get an idea how the program work.

Reference Manual

This give detailed information on every program aspect. The pages follow the order of the main menu.

Menu File
Menu Edit with the devices and preferences setting
Menu Tools
Menu Image same as the image right click menu
Menu Display to show the different tool box
Menu Help
Status bar
CCDciel status web page.
Scripting
JSON-RPC interface for Python and other software.
Pascal interface for Pascal scripting.
Command line options
Image preprocessing

Installation

To install the software look at the page corresponding to your computer.

Installation on Ubuntu, Debian
Installation on Linux
Installation on Windows
Installation on macOS
Installation of Hyperleda database (all computer)
Compilation of the source code

External dependencies

You must install this softwares to take full advantage of CCDciel, at least one in each category:

Equipment driver
- ASCOM or INDI
Plate solving
Auto-guider
- PHD2 or Lin_guider
Planetarium
- Cartes du Ciel
- Hallo Northern SKY, need a version more recent than 4.1.5
Image preprocessing
- Siril
Python scripting
- Install Python for extended scripting capabilities

Credit

Tools

CCDciel make use of the following development tools:

Free Pascal compiler
Lazarus IDE and library
BGRABitmap component
Synapse library
WCSTools library
LibRaw library

Developer

Patrick Chevalley
Han Kleijn

The source code is available from GitHub

License

Copyright (C) 2015-2024 Patrick Chevalley, http://www.ap-i.net/ccdciel
  
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under 
the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software 
Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html

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