GUI interface

The GUI interface is named 'gtknightview'. You can control a CCD camera with it and view some FITS files. The interface is intuitive. It can be invoked with:


gtknightview [-h|--help] [-i image] [-]

The user can ask for help (-h option). The user can specify an image to view. The names of FITS images will read from standard input with "-" specified on command line. In this case, the nightview will be closed after end of input file. This is mode for batch processing. The nightview will work together with night_control.

Main window and control panel of nightview. The basic description is included.

The gtknightview is designed to an iterative operation with CCD instrument, not for huge series of your CCD images. Please, use the night_control utility for this purposes. I don't plan integration any series-like feature to the gtknightview's menu. It's possible that another graphics utility will be written as a frontend to night_control.

The dark image subtraction behaviour may be slightly confusing. The dark image isn't make automatically. The subtract menu item is clickable only after manually grabbed dark image. Please, check that you use a dark image with the same exposure and camera temperature.