ASI module for pyobs

ASI SDK

Download the ASI SDK from https://astronomy-imaging-camera.com/software-drivers and install the libraries from the appropriate folder in lib/ to /usr/local/lib. Then copy asi.rules to /etc/udev/rules.d/99-asi.rules.

Install pyobs-asi

Clone the repository:

git clone https://github.com/pyobs/pyobs-asi.git

And install it:

cd pyobs-asi
pip3 install .

Configuration

The AsiCamera class is derived from BaseCamera (see pyobs documentation) and adds some new parameters:

camera:
    Name of camera to acquire driver for.
sdk:
    Path to .so file from ASI SDK.

Therefore, a basic module configuration would look like this:

class: pyobs_aso.AsiCamera
name: ASI camera
camera: ZWO ASI071MC Pro

Dependencies

• pyobs for the core funcionality. It is not included in the requirements.txt, so needs to be installed separately.
• zwoasi as a Python wrapper for the ASI SDK.
• Astropy for FITS file handling.
• NumPy for array handling.