本帖最后由 larrylart 于 2010-1-14 03:36 编辑
Hi,
这个链接是这个工程的预览: http://larryo.org/work/information/unimap/index.html
很多人进入了天文摄影的行列,大家的最终目标是拍出漂亮的照片。为什么不更进一步呢?于是我在2004年开始了这个工程。我觉得如果有一个简单易用的工具,能够根据星表分析爱好者的照片,那就太好了,我们就可以从漂亮的照片中学习和探索更多的知识。这就是这个工程的初衷。经过了上万小时的工作,现在你可以轻点几下鼠标,把照片导入到程序中,就可以了解到照片中的几乎所有东西:恒星、星系、星云、射电源、x/gamma射线暴、超新星、系外行星和小行星、彗星、甚至偶然经过的人造卫星。(熊注:汗,有点夸张吧?)。同时,你可以看到关于这些天体的额外信息,比如光谱等以及关于它或周围天区的讨论网址。
除此之外,我还提供了一批爱好者常用的小程序。比如环境与天气的数据、设备管理和控制程序、以及用于共享和评论数据的在线合作界面。
另外我要说的是,这个程序是以c++用wxwidgets(一个跨平台的图形界面库)写的,也就是说,它可以在linux、mac等平台上编译。绝大多数功能都可以在这些平台上运行,但是数码相机的接口只在windows下有效,另外我不太确认视频接口是否在mac下可用。所以,如果你们有兴趣在其他平台下使用这个软件,请告诉我,我会在今后发布针对linux或mac的版本。
另外,还要声明一下,我准备在未来把这套软件以免费的开放源代码的方式发布,可能包括windows、linux和mac版本。如果顺利的话,我是说,如果大家表示喜欢这个工程并且具备可行性的话,我考虑以后某个时候拉些赞助,建立一套大型的数据库,这样全世界的爱好者们就可以在这里共享带有天体信息的照片了。这么说的话,你大概就可以理解我想做的事业了吧。(熊注:这句是这个意思吗?)
希望有兴趣的朋友帮忙测试一下这个软件,并且给我反馈,谢谢!
Larry
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Hi,
You can check a preview of my project at: http://larryo.org/work/information/unimap/index.html
I started this project back in 2004 as I realize that more and more people get into astrophotography but most will go no further then framing nice pictures. So I thought that it will be good to have a simple to use tool to allow amateur astronomers to do plate-solving(detect and match your image against star catalogs), so they can explore and learn more about these marvelous images so I started to develop this project. Now after literally tens of thousands of development hours you can just load your astrophoto and in a few clicks learn almost everything is known about your image, what are the stars, galaxies, nebulas, radio sources, x-ray/gamma bursts, supernovas, extra solar planets or asteroids, comets and even artificial earth satellites passing through. Also, you can get more advanced information like various measurements available (including spectral) and links to articles/abstracts talking about objects and/in that area in the sky.
On top of that I added several tool to help amateur astronomer to better plan his observing session like an on click collection of environmental/weather data, instruments management/control and also an online collaboration interface to allow amateur astronomers to easily exchange/review the data.
There is something else I want to add… the project is written in c++/wxwidgets (cross platform gui library) and that means it can be compiled on other platforms such as linux/mac/etc. Most functionality will work except for the digital cameras interface (and for Mac I am not sure about the video interface either) which is for the moment is windows only. So if people are interested please let me know and I will be looking in the future to release it for Linux or Mac osX as well.
And, also to clarify … my future plans with this project is to release it free and opensource (for windows, linux and perhaps macosx)… if all goes well, I mean if people show interest in it and it’s workable and from there I might be looking for sponsorship at some point to support a big central database though which amateur astronomers from all over the world can share image resolved with astrometry data etc. So maybe now you can also understand what am I doing here as well …
Anyone interested to help me test it and/or feedback will be appreciated!
Larry |
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