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GoQat is GNOME software for operating QSI camera, autoguider and telescope (pronounced 'Gokat'!).
GoQat operates any CCD camera from QSI on the Linux platform. It can guide mounts via a serial link or autoguider port using the LX200 protocol. Any cameras supported by the Unicap library can be used for autoguiding (including the popular cameras from The Imaging Source), or any low-light video camera such as Mintron or Watec can be used via the Imaging Source video-to-firewire converter. GoQat also supports the Losmandy Gemini system.
You can:
* Set the CCD temperature and filter for your CCD exposures, capture sub-frames and use binning.
* Display real-time scrolling graphs of your CCD camera cooling.
* Autoguide your exposures using the fully integrated autoguiding functions: CCD exposures automatically wait until the autoguider is ready.
* Display real-time scrolling strip charts of star positions for periodic error analysis.
* Record real-time or time-lapse video from any of the supported video cameras, saving individual frames as FITS files for further analysis. Ideal for asteroid occultation timing and other transient events.
* Load and save Losmandy Gemini pointing model parameters, issue GoTo commands to Gemini and more.
* Use simple scripts to control the operation of your telescope, CCD camera and autoguider completely unattended.
Please see the documentation or the screenshots for more information.
GoQat can be downloaded for free under the terms of the General Public License. See www.gnu.org/licenses/ for further details.