Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 16 Apr 2004 21:07:47 +0200 | From | Jan-Benedict Glaw <> | Subject | Re: ANNOUNCE: AISF and ASTRIX |
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On Fri, 2004-04-16 10:38:02 -0400, Aaron Smith <aws4y@virginia.edu> wrote in message <407FEFCA.5070602@virginia.edu>: > Hello, > For the past few months the Virginia Astronomical Instrumentation > Laboratory has been working on a piece of software to control its > observing systems. These systems are built on the GNU/Linux Operating
You're kind of offtopic :)
> The framework called the Astronomical Instrumentation Software > Framework, or AISF. The goal of the framework is to provide simple > functions for observing tasks, such as exposing a CCD frame or writing a > FITS image to the disk. These tasks are handled with one or two uniform > function calls for all instruments. This makes it easy for even novice > programmers to automate data acquisition tasks.
Does that include moving the refractor to a given position?
> The ASTRIX program is built on top of this framework and is designed
Bad name:) Reminds me to those people at some french comic producer (as in "Asterix and Obelix", or in "Mobilix" ...).
After all, I really like the idea of having a *good* interface to all the hardware in an astronimical lab.
MfG, JBG (who really likes looking into deep sky:)
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