ccdacq (was: Re: [Aavso-photometry] Advice on Mac Models)

Justin Pryzby justinpryzby at users.sourceforge.net
Wed Sep 21 15:23:25 EDT 2005


On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 12:51:13PM -0500, Michael Koppelman wrote:
> In my personal opinion, a VirtualPC-type solution is a workaround and  
> not something I would create a plan around. Perhaps if enough of us  
> Mac-types rallied around the EquinoX stuff we could get a better  
> commitment from them to support their software going forward. IRAF  
> does have some image acquisition capabilities...?
TTBOMK, the extent of IRAF's acquisition abilities are some external
packages (ICE, ccdacq [0]) which end up calling UNIX programs to do
their work, after a very indirect callchain..

-- 
Clear skies,
Justin

References

[0] http://iraf.noao.edu/iraf/ftp/iraf/extern-v211/ice.readme


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