CCDOps is Santa Barbara Instrument Group’s camera control and image acquisition software designed specifically for SBIG astronomical cameras and accessories. It provides a reliable, straightforward interface for setting up your camera, capturing high‑quality images, and managing key observatory tasks from a single application.
Key capabilities:
- Camera control: Configure exposure time, binning, subframes, and readout options for supported SBIG cameras.
- Cooling management: Set and maintain precise thermoelectric cooling setpoints with live temperature monitoring.
- Guiding and accessories: Operate self-guiding features on compatible models and control SBIG filter wheels and adaptive optics units.
- Focusing tools: Use live focus modes and image metrics to achieve sharp focus quickly.
- Image acquisition: Run single exposures or multistep sequences, including multi-filter imaging.
- Calibration and processing: Capture bias, dark, and flat frames; apply basic calibration and perform essential image review with histograms, statistics, and simple stretches.
- File formats: Save images in industry-standard FITS with comprehensive header data and export to common formats for further processing in third-party applications.
Whether you’re performing first‑light tests, gathering calibration data, or running nightly imaging sessions, CCDOps offers dependable, SBIG-specific control and a clean workflow that helps you get from setup to results with minimal friction.
CCDOps is developed by Santa Barbara Instrument Group and is used by 1 user of Software Informer. The most popular version of this product among our users is 5.6. The name of the program executable file is Ccdops.exe. Works with b, g, stx and st4k file types.
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