Photonpiler is a collection of python scripts aim to process digital astrophotografies.
This software use numpy, rawtran and sextractor thus you have to have installed in your system.
Download and put in a directory of your election inside your binary path. Edit photonpiler.cfg and adapt to your needs some parameters.
This are the steps:
Create a directory tree like this:
[nameofyourelection] - SCIENCE
- FLATS
- DARKS
Put your RAW photos in its corresponding directories.
Edit photonpiler.cfg and set do_cfa_process=1 or do_rgb_process=1 or both.
do_cfa_process=1 Means do all the alinement with the CFA frames and then demosaic stacked frame
do_rgb_process=1 Means do all processing (alignment and stacking) per separate channels.
RUN:
cd [nameofyourelection] ./fRaw.py ./fRegistrarTriangles.py ./fColorMixer.py
The result images go to [nameofyourelection] directory. Several images are create: