Changelog for ccdciel-0.9.87~git.20240731-lp156.1.26.x86_64.rpm :

* Mon Aug 05 2024 infoAATTpaolostivanin.com- Update to version 0.9.87~git.20240731:
* Add json-rpc command to retrieve devices definition
* Let space for scrollbar to prevent flickering
* Replace FloatToStrF by FormatFloat
* More space for calibration isue
* Update translation
* Set Capture form temperature checkbox when running a sequence.
* Minor updates to log messages.
* Fix preview stacking
* Do not add single preview to the stack
* Replace preview option menu by more convenient checkbox
* Increase guide image width to the side panel width
* Default guide image in side panel
* Add splitter and scrollbox for the left panel
* Disable autofocus button when a sequence is running but no capture is currrently in progress
* Fix periodic autofocus for target without coordinates
* Add credit for Chris Konvalin
* Allow to show the guide image in the internal guider tool, allow to move the internal guider tool
* Improvement for stacking with rotation
* Add option for refocusing on HFD change, by Chris, https://www.ap-i.net/mantis/view.php?id=2734
* Stacking with field rotation
* Limit guide rate setting in 0.1-0.9 range
* Add option for a mandatory target start time
* More fix for sequence status
* Sequence status show correct start time when it start by a skyflat
* quickcancel property removed
* Update Synapse to e86cffca352c884d3528f28c3774a6b160af6214
* Better error message for download error
* Let the theme increase spinedit control height so Adwaita can put the +/- button vertically
* Add a script to run before connection, add profile name as parameter to beforeconnect, connected and disconnected scripts
* Wed Jun 12 2024 infoAATTpaolostivanin.com- Update to version 0.9.87~git.20240609:
* Revert testing change commit by error
* Fix missing button translation
* Update translation
* Add sequence button to restart an exposure and to force autofocus
* Update deepsky database from Han, add all Barnards dark nebula
* Use mount interface also with Skychart
* Do not wait for Indistarter if Indi server is running
* New documentation page
* Sync change in baseclient to blobclient
* Remove INDI camera RAM disk transfert
* Better text alignment
* Fix Indistarter config list when ccdciel base directory is modified
* Add option to start Indistarter with a selected profile when the devices are connected
* Show a message when the preview astrometry fail
* Add parameter when starting the planetarium
* Use key Alt+W to change single/multi panel
* Use more relable gain east for scale adjustment
* Fix reference magnitude selection
* Typo
* Increase search area when moving to the slit using longestpulse
* No message for new astrometry with single star guiding
* For multistar spectro guiding, make a new astrometry near the slit when the initial distance is large
* Troposphere rate in K/m
* More precise refraction using weather station values
* Fix crash when no script are present
* Script directory reorganization for online content
* Change version to 0.9.88, show warning about example script removal
* Remove example script from the installer
* Add function to download example script
* Preparation to test Qt6 build
* Lazarus patch to fix menu on Qt5 Wayland
* Add script command that return ccdciel version
* Remove icons from main menu bar
* Add script function for telescope tracking rate
* Fix compilation on Windows
* Add online search for object coordinates
* Prevent crash on double Indi disconnect
* Disable drag & drop for Connection, Focus, Capture, Sequence, Video, Guider, Finder
* Disable the menu to change visibility of Connection, Focus, Capture, Sequence, Video, Guider, Finder
* Force the default position and visibility of Connection, Focus, Capture, Sequence, Video, Guider, Finder
* End settling when guide mode change, never modify the lock position during spectro guiding
* Reset to Light after the end of a target to be sur the calibration light are off
* Allow flat panel at position below the horizon
* Run script after devices connection/disconnection
* Fix compilation on Linux
* Use the same COM object for finder and guider when the camera is the same, some camera driver do not support multiple connection
* Add option to chnge to multistar when the star in on the spectro slit
* Fix missing pages in documentation
* Update documentation
* Fix text alignment
* Update translation
* Exact comparison with float constant do not work
* Use Alt or Meta for big cross cursor
* For many camera an zero exposure time is valid only for bias, https://www.ap-i.net/mantis/view.php?id=2719
* Use color for x,y plot, fix drawing the last points in front
* Fix fractional focal length
* Fix graph color with dark background
* Simplification using a combobox for autofocus ROI
* Add option to select the percent use for autofocus
* RA correction with cos(Dec)
* typo
* Predict new star position during settle, use star manually selected
* Apply immediatelly a change of custom frame type from the capture panel, show script and parameters in the script panel
* Install all same file in debug version
* Fix text alignment
* Run Python debugger in the same directory
* Remove Python requests module for Windows, too much dependencies
* Add Python requests module for Windows
* Load Python module from the user script directory on Windows
* Add pyserial on Windows
* Add pyserial on Windows
* Ensure last saved ROI is use in all the case
* Put the Loop button in the guider tab
* Send Indi site longitude in 0..360
* Allow to start guiding when loop is in progress
* More text adjustment
* Text size adjustment
* Update translation
* Write telescope coordinates as CRVALn in FITS header, this is wrong but expected by some processing software
* Fix math operation with subframe
* Draw big cross at cursor position when Meta is pressed
* Save finder and guider image to the same path as the last capture
* Wed Jan 24 2024 infoAATTpaolostivanin.com- Update to version 0.9.86~git.20240123:
* Allow local horizon rise/set on the other side of the meridian
* Add button to scan a single Alpaca server when discovery fail. Can be use to scan a server not in the broadcast range
* Fix half draw image
* Show arguments when a script run
* Control exposure must reset the current custom type
* Prevent scrollbar in options
* Need CoInitialize in thread
* Update translation
* Button to delete a type
* Check for duplicate image type
* Update translation
* Add custom image type
* Revert \"Do not replace character in object name\"
* Do not replace character in object name
* Fix crash when opening the video settings
* Also make debug version in rpm format
* Tue Jan 09 2024 infoAATTpaolostivanin.com- Update to version 0.9.86~git.20231231:
* Polar alignment astrometry update also for the finder
* Update translation
* Add missing translation
* Change hyperbola calculation, by Han
* Continuous astrometry update for polar alignment
* fix finder camera disconnect
* Fix panel drawing after resize
* Use histogram also for finder and guider image level
* Add script command to control ROI
* Better video disconnect
* Do not remove blank space from object name
* Allow to solve main camera for finder calibration
* Fix text color
* Ensure the finder tool is show
* Change default options for astrometry.net
* Add filter for script
* Add button to select script
* Install example astrometry script
* Add example how to use only a part of the parameters
* Add example script for blind astrometry
* Also purge old finder and guider astrometry error files
* Image inspection improvement, by Han
* Use double click to select the reference star
* Show immediatelly long,lat entered as decimal
* Fix Linux compilation
* Give script access to connected Ascom devices
* Add ComObj to pascal script to allow access to Ascom devices
* More robust Alpaca discovery
* Add menu to show dark and flat header
* Exit if any processing is already done
* Mon Oct 30 2023 infoAATTpaolostivanin.com- Update to version 0.9.86~git.20231029:
* Add menu to preprocess the current image
* Fix for Alpaca Imagebytes
* Add preprocessing Preview option
* Use a menu for the Preview options
* Add option to defocus by a given amount after autofocus
* Use ROI and limit frame to 1500px when measuring only center stars for autofocus
* Prevent delay when autofocus is started
* Increase allowed temperature coefficient
* Increase allowed autofocus movement
* Prevent long timeout reading empty pipe on some system
* Use semicolon in switch name to prevent confusion in sequence
* Switch display improvement
* complete support for INDI switch
* Add weather detail to FITS header
* Read Ascom weather data from cache
* Add Indi weather detail
* Image measurement improvement, by Han
* Prevent unneeded additional drawing
* Add image inspection checkbox in the preview panel, by Han
* Allow to stop tracking with the Track button
* Prevent CdC to send the same object multiple time when it update the chart time
* Ignore start/end time change when set from meridian or rise time
* Sun Sep 17 2023 infoAATTpaolostivanin.com- Update to version 0.9.86~git.20230916:
* Fix typo
* Update documentation
* Always send frame size to INDI, even if it look like it not change
* Update translation
* Avoid pierUnknown, pierNotImplemented in meridian flip detection, by Han
* Graoh now refer to HFD
* Prevent error at end of sequence
* Plot trend maximum intensity only for manual focus
* Fix plan display when name is blank
* Remove extra spacing
* New guiding must initialize drift to zero
* Allow to change spectro guiding mode during guiding
* Always show connection error
* A script command to get the ccd cooler power
* Report error when saving files and abort capture
* Fix twilight time
* Accept floating point value but round them
* Use Goto button also for planetarium new target
* Tell server to close connection
* Retry status check after connection error
* Show why Connected get an exception
* Fix text drawing with Qt5
* Remove
* not accepted in filename on Windows
* Stop loop on guider and finder when the camera is disconnected
* Fix astrometry Sync with the guider
* Improve low histogram truncation
* Ignore invalid DATAMAX or DATAMIN FITS header
* Update translation
* Internal guider new automatic meridian flip calibration by Han
* Wed Aug 30 2023 infoAATTpaolostivanin.com- Update to version 0.9.85~git.20230824:
* Do not restart autoguiding too early after meridian flip
* Make distinction between unknow and not implemented pierside
* Make distinction between unknow and not implemented pierside
* Fix status display
* Update translation
* Update documentation
* Use variable miminum drift only for spectroscopy
* Stop guiding with planetarium goto
* Add build number to title bar to help identify screenshot
* Fix guide star selection by double click
* Update sensor analysis, by Han
* Change line color with dark theme
* Fix Y origin
* Fix for OSC, by Han
* Restore the form position when already open
* Ask for spectro guiding even if astrometry is not used
* Allow to specify spectro target after guiding is started
* add resolve and sync to the guide camera menu
* update image size to what the camera really return
* Update sensor analysis for OSC camera, by Han
* Return a specific error when the number of parameter do not match
* Autoguider status change only in detail log
* Update translation
* Fix cursor crash with old Qt version
* Led antialias
* Add sigma clipped mean and stddev, by Han
* Fix memo scrolling on Linux
* Fix Qt5 aspect
* Update sensor analysis to take account for RTN noise, by Han
* More alignment fix
* Fix for Windows led size
* Fix log window size
* Fix drawing of status led
* Check SNR for star lost during spectro settling
* No autoguider alert when current step is not a capture
* Check SNR for guide star selection
* Alignment fix
* Alignment fix
* Fix glyph/text change with qt5
* Use Finder solver also for Sync
* Mon Jul 31 2023 infoAATTpaolostivanin.com- Update to version 0.9.84~git.20230729:
* Correctly release the cursor, set it back with Qt and Cocoa
* Add parameter to allow for fully saturated star detection
* Fix uninitialized variable
* Fri Jul 28 2023 infoAATTpaolostivanin.com- Update to version 0.9.84~git.20230727:
* Update sensor analysis tool, by Han
* Remove SNR check because it prevent to select saturated stars out of the slit
* Fix stopping astrometry.net on Windows when using script or WSL
* gitignore for controltimer
* Fix finder and guider astrometry menu
* Ensure camera is idle before to start guiding
* Show why a new calibration is required
* Do not use custom cursor with Qt or Cocoa
* Use spectro target coordinates only once
* Default build for Qt5 on Linux
* Ask to complete centering on slit after planetarium goto
* Always show device label corresponding to the profile
* Sensor analysis update by Han
* New version of sensor analysis with dark current measurement, by Han
* Real fix for wrong overload
* Update sensor analysis, by Han
* Add missing popup menu
* Smaller splitter
* Measurement on finder image
* Fix for guider and finder coordinates
* 3 panel split to show all 3 camera at the same time
* Report orthogonality error if too big
* Allow a different character to separate the sequnce number in file name. Set version 0.9.85 to upgrade the config
* Fix meridian messsage
* Do not add step name when it is empty
* Option to add the plan step description to the filename
* Set spectro target position only when guiding start, not when target is initialized
* Sensor analysis, first operational version by Han
* Add script and switch in a plan step
* More calibration displacement for large HFD
* No hysteresis when moving the star to the slit
* Use a thread timer to wait for pulse guiding, fix dead lock on Windows
* Always show guider and finder camera progress
* Retry with brightest star if astrometry fail
* Option to use a different solver for the finder
* Fix astrometry environment
* Check SNR when selecting a single star
* Fix minimal drift
* implement single star calibration for spectroscopy, take account for the star diameter in the minimal drift
* Use a separate scrollbox for each tab
* Fix log level for calibration north/south
* Add button to show weather station detail
* Add skeleton for sensor analysis tool
* Add skeleton for sensor analysis tool
* Add script command to save guider and finder images
* Add option for online astrometry.net that use the standard script
* Fix for Windows
* Install new astrometry script
* Make online astrometry more easy to use
* Add command setFocusXY to select the focus star
* Add finder camera exposure progress
* Log guider astrometry result and save image in case of error
* Guider exposure time up to 2 minutes for astrometry
* Improve measurement speed of big images by limiting the first pass to 1000x1000 center area
* More info about guide camera
* Prevent star lost with long focal when measuring backlash
* Allow to set internal guider guide rate and initial calibration step, check and show calibration result
* Fix Y position
* Fix for astrometry.net installed under WSL version 2
* Fix wrong scale when tolerance is set to 0 or 1
* Update bgrabitmap
* Add astrometry option to identify target in spectroscope slit guider image
* Update translation
* Use default font size for graph scale
* Clear restart history when a sequence is fully completed so it can be reused later
* Prevent crash with malformed switch list
* Polar alignmen with finder camera- Rebased and renamed ccdciel-0.9.76_fix_debuginfo.patch to ccdciel-0.9.84_fix_debuginfo.patch.
* Fri Jun 30 2023 infoAATTpaolostivanin.com- Update to version 0.9.84~git.20230622:
* Show message in case of INDI Gui connection error
* Update documentation
* Adjustement for translation
* Update translation
* Add missing translation
* Fix memory leak
* Fix alignment
* Fix alignment
* Prevent multiple Nexttarget call
* Allow dusk flat when there is no astronomical night
* Wed May 03 2023 infoAATTpaolostivanin.com- Update to version 0.9.82~git.20230429:
* Also display x in 1..width range
* Fix Apply to All Devices for INDI and Aplaca Guide and Finder camera
* Stop preview astrometry for autofocus and calibration
* Initialize preview astrometry label, show when astrometry is outdated
* Add option to not center and zoom image in CdC
* Add astrometry option for preview images
* Debug with gtk2 version
* Let the camera manage frame overflow
* Quote fpack/funpack filename
* Update for unit u_annotation for value crota2, by Han
* Tue Mar 28 2023 Paolo Stivanin - Update to latest git revision.
* Mon Jan 30 2023 Paolo Stivanin - Update to 0.9.81~git.20230129.
* Wed Jan 25 2023 Paolo Stivanin - Update to 0.9.81~git.20230124.
* Sat Jan 07 2023 Paolo Stivanin - Update to 0.9.81~git.20230106.
* Tue Dec 20 2022 Paolo Stivanin - Update to 0.9.81~git.20221220
* Mon Jul 04 2022 Paolo Stivanin - Update to 0.9.80: - Save CCD frame setting in profile - Select FITS file extension - Add option for flat at park position - Show real focal length in image statistics after plate solving - Add autofocus result to the focus trend graph - Save picture with selected orientation - During polar alignment replace the start circle by a square to better distinguish them - Update for OpenSSL 3 - Fix for 8bit images- Rebase ccdciel-0.9.76_fix_debuginfo.patch
* Wed Apr 20 2022 Paolo Stivanin - Update to 0.9.79: - New image inspection tool. - Show J2000 coordinates after solving - Show INDI dual sensor option only for SBIG camera - Fix ZWO camera connection with INDI 1.9.5 - Fix video preview - Fix Astro-Tiff to always save the raw image - Fix autofocus retry
* Thu Mar 24 2022 Paolo Stivanin - Update to 0.9.78: - AstroTIFF support - With the clipping indicator, show the clipping value over the image. - Allow to try a full sky blind solving when not specifying coordinates and scale. - Fix manual filter change. - Prevent empty tab in INDI control panel with simulator snoop option.
* Thu Feb 03 2022 Paolo Stivanin - Update to 0.9.77: - New polar alignment method that work on the whole sky, no need to see the pole. - Show intensity profile of selected image area, for use with spectrograph images. - New option to not use astrometry in Goto function. - New option to change the location of the sequence files. - New option to do the meridian flip by setting the SideOfPier property. - New option to select the mouse cursor size. - New option to compute the mean instead of the sum of stacked images. - New option to save the stack as 32bit floating point. - New option to apply or not the dark, bpm and debayer the stack. - Add object name and date to saved stack files and directory. - New option to add the side of pier to the filename. - Add telescope side of pier to FITS header. - Add Sequence start script option. - Add CoverCalibrator script functions. - Add script for color series processing with Siril. - Add script to shutdown or sleep the computer. - Improvement to Alpaca discovery and setup. - Implement Alpaca camera ImageBytes transfer to improve the performance. - INDI configuration loading is now active by default, done only if the device is not already connected. - New main icon, update desktop file and metainfo. - Fix Enter key behavior in Goto form. - Limit number of star label to prevent overlap.
* Wed Sep 22 2021 Paolo Stivanin - Iniitial OBS release