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@ejeschke ejeschke released this 28 Oct 00:47
  • Update requirement to Ginga v7.6.0 (needed for the SkyCam differential
    image to stay in place when zoomed in)
  • Update the optional "pg" (web browser) requirements to pgwidgets-js
    and pgwidgets-python v0.4.3
  • SkyCam: reworked the differential sky image to make it useful for
    spotting clouds. Frames are median filtered to remove stars and noise,
    scaled to cancel camera exposure changes, optionally derotated with the
    sky so that stars cancel, and shown in units of the image noise. A
    cloud cover percentage is reported, with an adjustable threshold, and
    there is a choice of color maps that keep the target overlays readable.
    Fixed the old subtraction, which wrapped around for color images and
    dropped areas that got darker for monochrome ones.
  • SkyCam: the sky image now uses the viewer's color map and cut levels,
    so they can be adjusted (the normal and differential image each keep
    their own); the image is no longer auto-leveled on every download.
  • SkyCam: fixed the sky image being off-center (misaligned with the polar
    plot) for cameras whose sky circle runs off the edge of the frame, such
    as GTC.
  • SkyCam: the cloud cover shows "Twilight" or "Sun up" instead of a
    value while the Sun is above -12 degrees at the camera.
  • SkyCam: at night a white arrow from the zenith shows the direction and
    speed (degrees per minute) of the clouds, and targets in or near clouds
    are shown in orange-red in the Targets plugin ("Show Cloud Motion" and
    "Flag Clouded Targets"). The motion is found by correlating the last two
    differences between images, which removes fixed features such as domes.
  • Targets: the rotating target colors are now bright colors that show up
    on the sky camera images and are distinct from the selected, tagged and
    clouded target colors (green, yellow, orange, plum, chartreuse, pink).
  • SkyCam: a "History" tab plots the cloud cover over the last 12 hours
    (the controls moved to a "Camera" tab). The cloud cover is now
    measured for every new image, whether or not the differential image is
    shown.
  • SkyCam: image processing now runs off the GUI thread, so large camera
    images no longer make the interface pause.
  • SkyCam: animated images (e.g. GIF loops) are supported; the last frame
    is used unless a "frame" is given in skycams.yml. The CFHT Nana ao
    cameras, whose still images are no longer published, now use their
    GIF loops (and the Mid-IR camera has new geometry).
  • skycams.yml: cameras can give their own "latitude" and "longitude",
    used to derotate the sky and to tell when it is night at the camera;
    the GTC camera URL now uses https.