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Hi Akarsh,

I'm willing to mentor, I have a few tasks in the newly developed Ekos
tool that can benefit greatly from this. Perhaps the most important
now is to implement guiding support, I'll send in the details soon.

Regards,
Jasem

On Thu, Feb 9, 2012 at 7:31 PM, Akarsh Simha <akarshsimha <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi
>
> So we have two weeks to put up ideas for GSoC up on the KDE community wiki.
>
> I'm willing to mentor one student again. Anyone else interested in
> mentoring? We might have place for two students again.
>
> Also, we need to come up with projects that neither have to deal with the
> the hardwired bits of Kstars code, and that at the same time, that do not
> add complications to KStars' codebase.
>
> Also, I think this is the time when we really need honest feedback from
> previous students. I thought Harry's feedback about the tediousness of
> projects was very valuable.
>
>
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Jasem Mutlaq

Hello,

Regarding GSoC, I have the following project

Project Name: Autoguiding in KStars

Brief Explanation: Guiding is process by which a star field is kept
stationairy within the field of view of a telescope when performing
long exposure astronomical imaging. The process depends on selecting a
reference star in the frame and correcting the telescope motion by
detecting drifts in the telescope axes, and issuing correction
commands accordingly. KStars supports INDI which can operate and
control numerous astronomical devices. The goal of the project is to
add autoguiding support to KStars Ekos tool. Ekos is a tool to aid
amateur astronomers in astrophotography. It enables focusing, guiding,
and capture of astronomical images using INDI. It is prefereable, but
not necessary, to have an actual telescope and a CCD camera. Student
may use the INDI telescope and CCD simulators to develop and test
autoguiding as well.

Expected Results: Ability to automatically guide a mount using a CCD
and a telescope for long exposures.

Knowledge Prerequisite: Qt, C++. Some knowledge in astronomy is preferable.

Mentor: Jasem Mutlaq

Any comments on the project idea are appreciated!

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Best Regards,
Jasem Mutlaq

Jasem,
As you are aware there are many cameras now(including the fishcamp)
that have autoguiding built in.
Most of these are controlled by PHD.
So I do not think reinventing the wheel is good. By that I mean how
much of PHD's function do you want to put in Ekos.
However, getting the drivers for all the cameras to work using the
PHD-indi interface is the real challenge I think.
Brian 

On Sun, 12 Feb 2012 12:46:22 +0300
Jasem Mutlaq <mutlaqja <at> ikarustech.com> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> Regarding GSoC, I have the following project
> 
> Project Name: Autoguiding in KStars
> 
> Brief Explanation: Guiding is process by which a star field is kept
> stationairy within the field of view of a telescope when performing
> long exposure astronomical imaging. The process depends on selecting a
> reference star in the frame and correcting the telescope motion by
> detecting drifts in the telescope axes, and issuing correction
> commands accordingly. KStars supports INDI which can operate and
> control numerous astronomical devices. The goal of the project is to
> add autoguiding support to KStars Ekos tool. Ekos is a tool to aid
> amateur astronomers in astrophotography. It enables focusing, guiding,
> and capture of astronomical images using INDI. It is prefereable, but
> not necessary, to have an actual telescope and a CCD camera. Student
> may use the INDI telescope and CCD simulators to develop and test
> autoguiding as well.
> 
> Expected Results: Ability to automatically guide a mount using a CCD
> and a telescope for long exposures.
> 
> Knowledge Prerequisite: Qt, C++. Some knowledge in astronomy is
> preferable.
> 
> Mentor: Jasem Mutlaq
> 
> Any comments on the project idea are appreciated!
> 
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> Jasem Mutlaq
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On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 3:55 PM, bnc <bnc <at> netspeed.com.au> wrote:
> Jasem,
> As you are aware there are many cameras now(including the fishcamp)
> that have autoguiding built in.
> Most of these are controlled by PHD.
> So I do not think reinventing the wheel is good. By that I mean how
> much of PHD's function do you want to put in Ekos.
> However, getting the drivers for all the cameras to work using the
> PHD-indi interface is the real challenge I think.
> Brian

The pupose of Ekos is to provide a single tool to provice all the
necessary fuctions required for astrophotography from one application:
KStars. The work required for autoguiding in Ekos will most likely be
based on OpenPHD at any rate. OpenPHD already supports INDI and I
successfully tested it with real hardware and also in simulation mode.

Regards,
Jasem

Hi all,

Ok I added the project idea to the KDE Wiki here:

http://community.kde.org/GSoC/2012/Ideas#KStars

Regards,
Jasem

On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 4:15 PM, Jasem Mutlaq <mutlaqja <at> ikarustech.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 3:55 PM, bnc <bnc <at> netspeed.com.au> wrote:
>> Jasem,
>> As you are aware there are many cameras now(including the fishcamp)
>> that have autoguiding built in.
>> Most of these are controlled by PHD.
>> So I do not think reinventing the wheel is good. By that I mean how
>> much of PHD's function do you want to put in Ekos.
>> However, getting the drivers for all the cameras to work using the
>> PHD-indi interface is the real challenge I think.
>> Brian
>
> The pupose of Ekos is to provide a single tool to provice all the
> necessary fuctions required for astrophotography from one application:
> KStars. The work required for autoguiding in Ekos will most likely be
> based on OpenPHD at any rate. OpenPHD already supports INDI and I
> successfully tested it with real hardware and also in simulation mode.
>
> Regards,
> Jasem

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Jasem Mutlaq

Hi all,

I would also like to mentor in this year's edition of GSoC. I've got a
few ideas that I'll put on KDE Wiki in a few days. Is it possible for
two mentors to mentor single student in GSoC?

Akarsh: as we'll probably have at most 2 slots, would you like to
co-mentor a student with me?

Cheers,
Rafal

2012/2/12 Jasem Mutlaq <mutlaqja <at> ikarustech.com>:
> Hi all,
>
> Ok I added the project idea to the KDE Wiki here:
>
> http://community.kde.org/GSoC/2012/Ideas#KStars
>
> Regards,
> Jasem
>
>
> On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 4:15 PM, Jasem Mutlaq <mutlaqja <at> ikarustech.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, Feb 12, 2012 at 3:55 PM, bnc <bnc <at> netspeed.com.au> wrote:
>>> Jasem,
>>> As you are aware there are many cameras now(including the fishcamp)
>>> that have autoguiding built in.
>>> Most of these are controlled by PHD.
>>> So I do not think reinventing the wheel is good. By that I mean how
>>> much of PHD's function do you want to put in Ekos.
>>> However, getting the drivers for all the cameras to work using the
>>> PHD-indi interface is the real challenge I think.
>>> Brian
>>
>> The pupose of Ekos is to provide a single tool to provice all the
>> necessary fuctions required for astrophotography from one application:
>> KStars. The work required for autoguiding in Ekos will most likely be
>> based on OpenPHD at any rate. OpenPHD already supports INDI and I
>> successfully tested it with real hardware and also in simulation mode.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Jasem
>
>
>
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> Jasem Mutlaq
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On Wed, Feb 15, 2012 at 10:15:04AM +0100, Rafa? Ku?aga wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I would also like to mentor in this year's edition of GSoC. I've got a
> few ideas that I'll put on KDE Wiki in a few days. Is it possible for
> two mentors to mentor single student in GSoC?
> 
> Akarsh: as we'll probably have at most 2 slots, would you like to
> co-mentor a student with me?
> 
> Cheers,
> Rafal

Hey Rafal

It is certainly possible to co-mentor. I wouldn't mind helping out by
co-mentoring a student with you. I have some ideas too that I need to
put up, hopefully will do that by this weekend. Yes, it's true that we
are unlikely to get more than 2 slots.

Regards
Akarsh

I am trying to install this catalog in KStars - runs for many hours 
already. how long may it run?
Thanks!

Hello Jurgen,

The time of download surely depends on the speed of your internet
connection. You may want to check if the file is still being
downloaded (e.g. by using tcpdump). Another option is to download
catalog data from here -
http://files.kde.org/edu/kstars/download.kde.org/kstars/ and then
unpack it in Kstars data directory.

Anyway, you've reminded me to add progress information for data download tool.

Cheers,
Rafal

2012/2/20 Jurgen Wolf <j-wolf <at> pacbell.net>:
> I am trying to install this catalog in KStars - runs for many hours already.
> how long may it run?
> Thanks!
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