Chapter 1. Introduction

Table of Contents
What is a Nightview?
Brief history
Feedback
WARRANTY
Welcome developer

What is a Nightview?

The nightview is a set of a small simple utilities to a control CCD camera under Unix (linux is implemented yet). It is useful for an astronomer to study of the sky by the observation with a CCD camera equipment.

The Nightview package is low, middle and high level package to operate with CCD camera. It uses a multi-layer server-client framework, therefore the clients don't depends on specific hardware, only on standard behaviour of these instruments (like acquire of image, select filter and so on). The server depends to a specific HW over its specific library, which operate on communication with CCD camera. Only SBIG camera operation is implemented yet.