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  1. Change of plane

    I would like to change the plane of the axis. By placing the phone parallel to the optic axis (flat on the tube)

    14 votes
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    under review  ·  2 comments  ·  Capture  ·  Admin →
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  2. Binning

    Being able to bin has some advantages:
    * SNR improves
    * Memory requirements go down
    * The rest of the processing is faster

    Downside:
    * Resolution decreases, which might affect accuracy of plate solving. Need to test this out.

    9 votes
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  3. Add ability to choose any jpeg for plate solving

    Add ability to choose any jpeg from the smartphone to Apple plate solving

    8 votes
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  4. ZWO camera support

    I read that one priority might be external camera support. The ZWO camera app works, but is extremely limited. It would be really, really nice to be able to control ZWO cameras with the features already available in SkEye Cam, including future live stacking for android!

    7 votes
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  5. Support image flipping for digiscoping

    I often digiscope with a diagonal, which flips the image. "It would be nice" to be able to flip the image right-to-left or top-to-bottom in camera.

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  6. Accommodate mirror and prism vertical flip

    I have a small right angle prism attached to back camera which flips image vertically. I use portrait orientation. The camera is used for StarSense and I can't easily remove prism. Much easier to port to other scopes. Anyway some changes to code to allow image to be flipped vertically so your plate solving can actually recognize the image coming from camera in this orientation. This also means my phone is facing downward when camera sees horizon. Note this is different from the request for.digiscoping. Net result is same, but your app won't work with my setup at all unless…

    6 votes
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  7. A powerful finder

    Combine it with the Skeye planetarium software.
    For rough direction to find an object, use the SkEye capability (sensors of the phone), than align finally via plate solving.
    Define calibration of phone direction, as the phone might not be parallel to the telescope axis, and most phone holders do not allow any mechanical adjustment.

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    0 comments  ·  Telescope Pointing  ·  Admin →
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    under review  ·  AdminHarshad (Developer, SkEye) responded

    Hi. 


    Just to let you know, SkEye Cam has a simple yet effective alignment option. I have used it to find DSOs from city skies very easily, and it doesn't require mechanical adjustment.


    While in Live View, click the "unlock cross-hairs" button, and then drag the cross-hairs so that they are centered on the star or terrestrial object that is in the center of field of view. And then press lock. That's it!


    Integration with SkEye for sensors isn't required, as SkEye Cam does use sensors on its own too. However, SkEye has a larger database of objects. I am still in two minds whether to replicate the database in SkEye Cam or to integrate with SkEye in some way.


    clear skies!

  8. Option for beep sounds during Batch Capture

    Sounds could indicate completion of individual capture, as well as completion of the whole batch.

    3 votes
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  9. The ability to get to all of my Samsung S21 Ultra cameras, including the 10x, would make this the ultimate pair of binoculars!

    Some newer cellphones -- like mine -- have a 10x camera installed. This is in essence a pair of digital binoculars. So far, the OpenCamera API doesn't completely support these. With this camera enabled, SkEye Pro + SkEye Cam would be the ultimate portable space exploration tool!

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  10. Starnames

    For easier assignment of stars when calibrating plate solving, display the brightness of the stars with larger dots in the overlay. And a possibility to display the normal names of the stars instead of the shortened catalog name during live plate solving

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  11. Saving and choosing from a list of presets

    It should be possible to save multiple Camera settings along with Plate Solving calibrations, and name them.

    This list of presets should be per Camera as each camera has different properties.

    Example list of presets could be:

    PlateSolve DefaultLens
    PlateSolve 60mm
    LongExposure Untracked 6seconds
    VeryLongExposure Tracked 30seconds

    2 votes
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  12. Manually triggered mode

    The continuous capture mode is not suitable for finding the best exposure settings, especially for long exposure times, since setting up and tearing down the camera pipeline takes a long time.

    A manually triggered mode would be faster.

    An option to quickly switch between the two modes would be ideal.

    2 votes
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  13. Bulls Eye target with known angular radius

    After calibration, the app knows the FOV angles. This can be used to draw bulls-eye circles with known radius (2 degrees, 4 degrees, etc)

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  14. Align to bright object

    When aligning the cross-hairs to an object, it would be nice to snap to a known object.

    Possible ways to do this:

    1. Show a button "Align to Vega" when Vega is near to the cross-hairs
    2. Show a list of nearby objects to snap to
    3. Have a "snap" mode which snaps the cross-hair to nearest object while dragging. But this might be tricky when there are two objects nearby.
    2 votes
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  15. HDR Captures

    Will be especially useful for capturing planets and their moon, for example.

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