If you have 10 Mbps it might not be such a pain.

With my new camera at 16 Mbyte per image, it is essentially impossible for more than a very few images over my DSL connection at 0.7Mbps. It was bad enough with my old ST7 that was about 0.8 Mbyte per image. I agree Uploading images to VPhot is a problem. that would be an interesting question to ask on the forum. You could in its original implementation as Photometrica and perhaps it still can be. I don't know if there is a version that you can download to your computer.

It has some very interesting and helpful features, however and it is free.įinally, I have used VPhot and have not had unexpected results. You had to do that as a manual step at the end. Image J is quite a good package BUT the last time I looked it did not have a conversion into magnitudes. It was developed for medical imaging photometry as were many of the best photometry packages including Mira-Pro (because that is where the money is). There is also a free package called image J. It is versatile, has lots of add-on packages to do almost anything you can imagine, has a image viewing interface called DS9 that is incredibly versatile but it has a very difficult learning curve. IRAF, however is regarded as the gold standard of Image Reduction and Analysis (Facility) software for astronomy. If you found Canopus too complicated you will find these ridiculously so. Of course there is IRAF itself or the version integrated with Python, PYRAF. This was developed as a Windows program but I think it is also available for the current MAC OS. The problem is it is expensive - on the order of Maxim DL or a bit more if you get the scripting add-ons. It has robust GUI interfaced algorithms for photometry and other image analysis tasks - including source extractor - and one of the slickest image calibration pipelines I have ever seen. It was developed by Michael Newberry, one of the original developers of IRAF. More than 5 years ago I tried a number of different packages and decided I liked Mira-pro the best. I have used it in the past and it's pretty good and readily available as freeware. You can't get raw magnitudes, at least I found no way to get them and for certain things like establishing transformation coefficients you don't want to do differential photometry. I also found Maxim DL to be very limited particularly since you must have a comparison star to use the photometry tool and the information window aperture tool is not very accurate and is not recommended for photometry. Therefore it would be hard for me to compare others to it. I have only fiddled with Canopus a couple of times and that was a few years ago.

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