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
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
# 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
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.