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GoQat operates any CCD camera from QSI on the Linux platform. It can guide mounts via a serial/USB port, parallel port or autoguider port using the LX200 protocol. Any cameras supported by the Unicap library can be used for autoguiding, including the popular astronomy cameras from The Imaging Source. Low-light video cameras such as Mintron or Watec can be used via the Imaging Source video-to-firewire converter. GoQat also supports Video-for-Linux devices such as webcams and implements some features of the Losmandy Gemini system.
The QSI 532 analysis pages discuss in detail the performance of a QSI 532ws CCD camera employing the Kodak KAF-3200ME chip, including bias frames, dark signal, transfer curves, flat fields, residual bulk image and linearity.
The drift alignment pages take a detailed look at the method of polar alignment by stellar drift, demonstrating how it works and showing the effects of refraction on polar alignment.
