Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!samsung!munnari.oz.au!uhccux!catfish!jwright From: jwright@cfht.hawaii.edu (Jim Wright) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: summary re: amiga, ccd, astronomy image-processing Message-ID: Date: 2 Sep 90 13:28:01 GMT References: <28827@nigel.ee.udel.edu> Sender: news@uhccux.uhcc.Hawaii.Edu Lines: 29 JMPIERCE%USMCP6.BITNET@vm.tcs.tulane.edu (JIM PIERCE) writes: > 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. World class observatories don't just roll off a production line. Each one is unique. And as much as I like the Amiga, it just isn't up to this job. Depending on the configuration, we get single images that are 8 megabytes in size. And the goal is to get as many of these as possible within each astronomer's time allotment. We're talking serious bandwidth and cpu horsepower. And there are mumblings about 16MB or 32MB images coming up. A programmer's nightmare! :-) >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! This is a far cry from Lick, Palomar, Keck, CFHT, et. al. I don't know, there just might be a market for an off-the-shelf computerized home observatory. Could be fun. A bit of competition for Distant Suns. :-) -- Jim Wright jwright@quonset.cfht.hawaii.edu Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope Corp.