Helpful astronomy tools.
The idea of astro_tools came up when certain tasks during my astrophotography sessions came up again and again. Since I am using Linux, the support for certain tools was not yet as good as for windows. One thing which was especially interesting was a tool that automatically finds the best focus position of the camera plugged to the telescope. Furthermore I wanted to have a kind of sequencer where I can script the different tasks which are to be done during the night. I liked the idea of having an automatic re-focusing from time to time - for example between each frame or when the temperature has changed significantly. In addition, certain actions should also be available via a commandline interface. Later I plan do add a Qt and/or web based GUI for this program. To control the astronomical devices I use the INDI library. For image processing I use CCfits and CIMG.