Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!uflorida!mephisto!udel!mmdf From: JMPIERCE%USMCP6.BITNET@vm.tcs.tulane.edu (JIM PIERCE) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: summary re: amiga, ccd, astronomy image-processing Message-ID: <28827@nigel.ee.udel.edu> Date: 29 Aug 90 16:55:51 GMT Sender: mmdf@ee.udel.edu Lines: 23 Well, there are _no_ ccd digitizing/ image-manipulation programs for the Amiga readily available. Mount Palomar uses an A2000 and Lick Observatory is setting up to use a large CCD mosaic at the 10 meter { diameter} telescope in Hawaii. All setups are 'roll your own'. I had hoped that the programmers interested in image-processing on the Amiga would have written a viable program by now. Some commercial setups have output that only requires a computer with software to access the data. That means that the CCD camera doesn't output computer specific data ! I did get an offer of help, but its all start from scratch for me to use that info. I wont have time for 10-15 weeks to do more than look at the info he will be sending me. This looks like a valuable commercial venture for some enterprising programmer/hardware person to promote the Amiga. After all, the _best_ micro for image-processing is the Amiga. Actually I prefer to use the machine best suited for a particular project. No need to overreact to this posting, I wont be on here long enough to read them. Heckle each other. Some of you are real good at that. * Jim Pierce at Univ. of Southern Mississippi * Disclaimer: 'Documentation? There's no documentation for Bitnet.'