On this page, you can find the version 3 of the program TeleAuto.
This version is stable. No new function will be added in it in the future.
You will also find the next version 4 which will be the version where
new function will be added. It will be buggy in its new functions.
As the non GPL part of the version 3 will be deleted, the version 4 will
have fewer functions.
The bug can be reported to any of the author but preferably to the
Teleauto mail list we suggest strongly you subscribe !
After you run the program for the first time, use the menu "Fichier
- Changer le language" to use the program in English or Russian.
There is a facility to translate the program in any language, please
contact us if you do so.
Description
File to download
TeleAuto basic package last version Open Source under GPL licence Include the full software and the following catalogs :
- Bright Star Catalogue
- New General Catalogues
Changes list : Changes French version only
TeleAuto basic package last version without source code Include the full software and the following catalogs :
- Bright Star Catalogue
- New General Catalogues
French version only
English dictionnary file initialy translated by Robert Soubie. Update by Lawrence
Poorman and Philippe. You must download it to use TeleAuto in English.
Plugin with sources for SBIG USB camera driven with the universal driver SbigUDrv.dll. .zip file to unzip in the TeleAuto directory
Sources under GPL licence.
Be carefull !!! If you use CCDOps, you must configure it without camera to be able to driver your
camera with TeleAuto.
This plugin do not work for the guiding device
For V3.0.1 and upper.
Plugin with sources for SBIG parallel cameras driven with the universal driver SbigUDrv.dll. .zip file to unzip in the TeleAuto directory
Sources under GPL licence.
Be carefull !!! If you use CCDOps, you must configure it without camera to be able to driver your
camera with TeleAuto.
This plugin do not work for the guiding device
For V3.0.1 and upper.
Plugin with sources for SBIG USB track device driven with the universal driver SbigUDrv.dll. .zip file to unzip in the TeleAuto directory
Sources under GPL licence.
Be carefull !!! If you use CCDOps, you must configure it without camera to be able to driver your
camera with TeleAuto.
This plugin do not work for the guiding device
For V3.0.1 and upper.
Plugin with sources for SBIG track device driven with the universal driver SbigUDrv.dll. .zip file to unzip in the TeleAuto directory
Sources under GPL licence.
Be carefull !!! If you use CCDOps, you must configure it without camera to be able to driver your
camera with TeleAuto.
This plugin do not work for the guiding device
For V3.0.1 and upper.
Ethernaude Plugin. Unzip this file to the directory where you installed TeleAuto.exe
Sources under GPL licence.
Updated for the Version 2.97 and upper.
Vesta-SC Plugin to use with the long exposure modified webcam
Vesta-SC.
Support to cut the amplifier during the exposure.
Unzip this file to the directory where you installed TeleAuto.exe
Updated for the Version 2.97 and upper.
Plugin Webcam to drive Webcams. To drive 2 Webcam, one to track and
the other as main camera.
Unzip this file to the directory where you installed TeleAuto.exe
Version 2.97 and upper.
The open the source code, these functions are deleted :
- Moveable toolbars
- Eportation of objects lists
- 3D visualisation of images
- Registration of images extracted from AVI
- Drive of the GT1100 mount
Added functions :
- Plugin for focusers
- Focus optimisation (in test)
- Registation of a stellar serie (with rotation between images)
- Registation of images (with rotation between images)
The version 3 include the following changes
- V curve calibration for V autofocus
- Corrected command calibration for focusers
- Save images with Adobe PSD format
- APN images load
- Drive dome position
- Verbose mode to display low level messages. Only for CCD plugin for the moment (debug of plugins)
- Switch off periodic read of telescope position
- Aperture photometry
The version 2.97 include the following changes
- New calibration and autofocus fonctions with V curve by Philippe Bodart.
- New isocontours fonction by Bruno Balay.
- New RGB -> Black/White conversion function by Bruno Balay.
- New Ethernaude plugin by Philippe Martinole.
- A lot of bugs corrections of the interface by Jean-Marie Llapasset.
- New configuration can be added in the camera plugin.
- Accents translation correction. You can now ignore the accents.
- TeleAuto.ini configuration file save speed up.
- Camera shutter bug corrected.
The version 2.96 include the following changes :
- First version of the sky chart to drive telescopes.
- A lot of script function added, mainly to drive telescopes. Will be described soon
in the scripts page.
- A lot of improvements in the telescope command engine.
- The camera plugin can now drive CCD camera with 16 bits converters. Read the CCD plugins
page for more informations. If you use a plugin to drive your camera, please download the update.
- You can now save your images in FITS format in integer or floating point values.
- New function to draw a graph from a text file.
- Update of the english translation.
- The translation engine is faster.
- New cicular aperture photometry.
- Choice of the method of threshold seting of acquired images in the acquisition pad.
- New RMS guiding error information saved with FITS and CPA files.
- Reinitialisation of guiding errors at the begining of the main CCD exposures.
- Save of the guiding graphs as bmp images.
- A lot of little improvements and bug correction.
The version 2.95 include the following changes :
- Mount flip information can be used in tracking and frame orientation
- Display tracking calibration informations
- All calibration functions can now handle floating point and color images
- Theshold functions improvement
- Better MySQL connextion with Login/Password management
- Spline translation added
- Images left open when exiting TA are open again at next start
- Auto threshold improved
- Internal images handling improved
- A lot of little improvements and bug correction
The version 2.94 include the following changes :
- New acquisition function with Twain interface.
- New function for new image creation.
- Matching engine improvement.
- Astrometry engine improvement.
- Possibilty to do astrometry with rectangular CCD frames.
- Most calibration functions handle now floating point and multiplane
images.
- New stellar and planetary realign function on several images (usefull
to realign color planes).
- Memory leak correction on calibration functions.
- Tracking calibration improved.
- The event marker of Guy Detienne is now driven.
- Latitude and longitude added in FITS files.
- The expose time is now expressed in seconds in FITS files.
- Improvement and debug of CCD part in the configuration window..
- A lot of look improvement and french laguage improvement
in focusing and tracking functions.
- A lot of debug and improvement in focusing functions.
- New Empty Spy button in the spy window.
- The spy.txt file change name to the clearer name spy.log .
The version 2.93 include the following changes :
- New Webcam plugin to download on this page to drive 2 webcam together
with one for tracking.
- Debug of webcam driver.
- New supervision function to observe transitory phenomenon like shooting
stars.
- Debug of ST9 et ST10
- Debug of large image series acquisition (up to 340.000 images)
- General Debug
The version 2.92 include the following changes :
- Possibility to shift the scope during tracking to improve the image
quality
- Centering of the brightest star of the main CCD ( Same algo as tracking
)
- Centering of the brightest star of the tracking CCD ( Same algo as
tracking )
- Centering of a mark in the main CCD ( For exemple to center a Galaxy
)
- Centering of a mark in the tracking CCD
- Calibration of the centering on the main CCD
- Calibration of the centering on the tracking CCD
- Add a mark on animage
- New HFD ( FocusMax ) measure for focusing even on highly defocused
stars
- Mutiple focuser move
- A lot of small improvements on focuser part
The version 2.91 include the following changes :
- Now the focuser is connected only if the telescope is connected on
LX200 and Astrophysics
- New gradient filter in 4 directions
- Gradient norm calculation
- Simplified contour extraction
- Simplified contour extraction with low pass filter
Focuser :
- Double clic now forbiden on <Manual> or <Auto>
- Dark correction to damp FWHM measure error
- Choice between minimum and mean to measure the FWHM
- Possibility to have different number of measure for fast and slow
speed
- Improvement of the saturation correction step
- Measure of the FWHM also in serie in manual
- Better auto algorithm initialisation
- Lot of bug corrected and minor improvement in gui
- Debug of tracking CCD acquisition with binning
- Now TA wait au good tracking before to start an exposure
- Stability improvement
The version 2.9 include the following changes :
- Aaa of the Paramount GT110 mount.
- New version of the scheduler which will use a powerfull Pascal script.
In devellopement.
- Add of a new hardware, the hour server to driver new hardware giving
precise hour.
The possible servers are :
PC CMOS hour using $02 $04 interruptions. It is the old one used by TA.To
avoid now.
PC CMOS hour using $00 $02 interruptions. Precise to 1/18 of seconde.To
use now.
Windows Hour. To use if the use of your camera doesn't shit the windows
hour
Event Marker of Guy Detienne in tests. Precise to 1/1000 of second
- Add of Audine3200, ST9 et ST10 cameras to test.
- Add of SBIG cameras under NT/2000/XP
- The Hisis22 14 bits and Audine cameras now can be drivent under NT/2000/XP
with Portalk driver without AllowIO.
- Camera plugin modifications :
Use the hour server trought the GetHour function internal of TA.
Know if the driver is used under NT/2000/XP to shunt the cli/sti when using
PortTalk
The plugin must now givehour of begining and and of exposure.
- Target display on the images to help to manually center a star (F9)
- First version of the pointing model (TPoint like). Work now but will
be improved in the next version.
- Change of behavior of the hardware buttons. Down, the pads appears,
up it disapears.
- Recurent observing tool to observe variables stars or asteroids.
You can take multiples exposures of severals objects during all night.
At the end, the télescope point to the meridian.
With Philippe Bodart :
- Improments of the focusers drivers with new high level functions
between TA and the drivers.
- The old focuser and tracking monitor is deleted and give birth to
3 new monotors :
Focuser monitor
Tracking monitor
Mount analyse monitor
- Position informations deleted in the focuser monitor
- FWHM informations deleted in the mount analyse monitor
- Focuser improvements :
Move signaled with red points on the graph
Focuser moves are done now after FWHM measure to increase move precision
New correctd command to avoid focusers drawbacks in impulsion command ans
autofocus
You can now save the informations displayed
Improvement of the design of the focuser monitor
FWHM measure in arcsec
First movement analyse to initialise the autofocus
No move if FWHM change is to small in the autofocus.
New star zoom in the focuser monitor
Improvements of the mount analyse tool
- A lot of improvements and bugs corrected
The version 2.8 include the following changes :
- Photometric profile of an image.
- New sky window to choose targets to observe in the scheduler.
- PISCO telescope interface driver to guide at small price with a Webcam.
- Automatic astrométric calibration
- Astrometric measure (See the documentation
in french) - 3D Visualisation/IsoContours with powerfull interface.
- Profile file creation tool to discribe sky horizon.
- English translation update.
- Now loading foreign dictionnary in memory to speed up TA on old PC.
- Cosmetics correction scripts creation.
- Apply cosmetics correction scripts.
- Automatic cosmetics correction scripts creation to correct hot pixels.
- Gaussian modelisation gaussienne of the sky intensities to measure
noise level (In histogram function)
- New Serie Calibration function.
- Cosmetic correction with script can be applied durind automatic calibration.
- The automatic calibration can now calibrate all the images of a directory
at once. You can now calibrate all the image of a night.(See
the documentation in french) - You can now optimise the dark frame when calibrating.
The version 2.67 include the following change :
Beware!!! check carefully your configuration or delete the file Teleauto.ini,
some unit have totally changed.
- Better handling of the webcam Vesta-Pro.
- Add the Vesta-SC plugin to use the long exposure mode of this camera.
Multi-plane images :
-Load and save multi-plane FITS files
-Function to add green and blue plane to combine a color image
-Split the plane to separate images
-Add a plane
-Supress a plane
-Extract a plane
-Swap two plane
Geometry :
-Stelar realign by morphing can work on color images. The reference
is the red plane.
Improvement in the telescope control suggested by Philippe Bodart :
-Debug the Astrophysics mount control
-Pulse command on the telescope pad
-Stop button to halt the telescope
-Add direction arrow to the pad buttons
Improvement to the autoguiding function suggested by Philippe Bodart
:
-Guide with Y mirror is now working
-Cleanup the the calibration report window
-New graphic control for the calibration
-Cleanup the guide window
-Better correction frequency
-Separate calibration time for NS and EW
-Separate moderation factor for NS and EW
-Take account of the star declination for the calibration to let you
guide on any part of the sky with the same calibration data.
Look at the French page for a description
of the previous versions.
