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Qastrocam - Video capture program

Qastrocam is a capture program that can work with any video4linux device (see the home page for a complete list). Its main purpose is to do astrophotography. It can control a telescope to do guiding with the images received from the video device. It can also control the extended features of a webcam modified to do long exposure (several seconds) captures. Images can be saved in a variety of formats including, BMP, PNG, and JPEG.

Obtaining

Web pagehttp://3demi.net/astro/qastrocam/doc
Source tarball http://3demi.net/astro/qastrocam/doc/qastrocam-3.9-sources.tar.gz
Source informationhttp://3demi.net/astro/qastrocam/doc/
Version 3.9 (stable) released on 2004-01-05
Licensed under The GNU General Public License, Version 2 or later.
This is not a GNU package.

Support contacts

Help List<qastrocam@3demi.net>
Developer List<qastrocam@3demi.net>
Bug List<qastrocam@3demi.net>

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Related information

Source repository:pserver:anonymous@3demi.net:/astro login cvs :pserver:anonymous@3demi.net:/astro Co qastrocam
InterfacesX Window System
Source languagesC++
Use requirementsA camera supported by the video4linux API
Build prerequisitesQt 3.0
Weak prerequisitesPhilips webcam with nemosoft driver
Related programsSImg

Entry information

License verified byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org> on 2003-01-28
Entry compiled byJanet Casey <jcasey@gnu.org>

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