Well, I’ve done as much testing as I can face, if not as much as I’d like to have done. Managing 50-ish virtual machines and a couple of desktops booting into five different OS releases has got the better of me though and I just want this one out of the door now despite the trepidation that always goes with a new release.
The major changes for this release are some big clean-ups for the ASI camera interface and the majority of the support for the QHY5L-II (I only have the mono version of the camera, so I can’t be certain that colour works).
In addition there’s a new camera controls dialog and the “private” controls for the SPC900 are implemented. Other user-visible changes mostly relate to usability.
There are now two versions of each of the 32-bit and 64-bit binary releases to handle differences in libraries in the base distributions. Distributions based on Ubuntu 12.04 such as Mint 13 and DistroAstro have their own binaries. Unfortunately it appears for the time being that these releases may not support the SPC900 properly.
The major task for the next release is to port the entire application to OSX and get it working on a MacBook Pro. The current sources build though they don’t work correctly. I’m hopeful that it should be possible to get the entire range of ASI cameras and the QHY5/QHY5L-II all working on OSX however. I'd also like to make a start on support for filter wheels.
Downloads are all here:
James
