Focus and collimation using the Modulation Transfer Function

[Patrick Molenaar]

Hi Wolfgang,

Thanks for the reply. I first wanted to see if this feature would be accepted by the group. If there would be a lot of rejection for this feature, then I know I don't have to start with it. I already have your vote :-)

I am still in the research phase for this feature, discussing with the person from the observatory how he has this feature in mind.
As soon as I have something more concrete about how I think it can be integrated in kstars, I will share it with the group.

Regards,
Patrick (aka AstroRunner)

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Van: Wolfgang Reissenberger <sterne-jaeger at openfuture.de>
Verzonden: vrijdag 12 juni 2020 12:44
Aan: Patrick Molenaar <pr_molenaar at hotmail.com>
CC: kstars-devel at kde.org <kstars-devel at kde.org>
Onderwerp: Re: Focus and collimation using the Modulation Transfer Function

Hi Patrick,
Sounds very reasonable, why not. Maybe you publish here a short sketch how you plan to integrate it. I would expect integrating the pure function is not that complicated, but integrating it nicely into the existing workflows, events, state machines etc is the main point.

Cheers
Wolfgang

Am 12.06.2020 um 11:49 schrieb Patrick Molenaar <pr_molenaar at hotmail.com<mailto:pr_molenaar at hotmail.com>>:

Hi,

Someone from the observatory I visit frequently, informed me that he would like to have some software to help to focus and collimate his telescope using the Modulation Transfer Function (MTF). He is a scientist with quite some knowledge of optics and thought it would be nice to have this feature available in KStars/Ekos.

As I have developed the Bahtinov Focus Assistant in KStars I offered my help for implementing this feature. Of course I would like to consult this group before I start implementing. Do you agree too that this feature (focus and collimate using MTF) would be a nice addition to KStars?

I am looking forward to your replies.

Kind regards,
AstroRunner

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