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SkyPi

This program is mainly dedicated to astronomy live video with live treatments.

This software runs with a raspberry pi (at least 3B+ or better 4)

This program require a picamera V2.

You will also need :

Python 3
openCV
numpy
pillow
picamera

Python installation

If you don't have Python3 on your package manager, add it in sources.list: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:deadsnakes/ppa

# Python 3
sudo apt install python3.8

# Pip
sudo apt install python3-pip

You can check version with python --version. If command python execute python2.x, run all commands with python3 like above. Python documentation install

Packages installation

# openCV
sudo apt install python3-opencv

# numpy
python3 -m pip install --upgrade numpy

# Pillow
python3 -m pip install --upgrade Pillow

# Picamera
sudo pip install picamera

Picamera installation documentation

Run program

python3

You will also have to create 2 directories in you installation directory :

one for the images you will acquire
one for the video you will acquire

This is an old version of SkyPi and i guess it must get bugs. This software won't get any update (no further developments).

IMPORTANT license information : This softawre and any part of this software are free of use for any kind of use.