Hocus Focus | 2024-11-03

Описание: Hocus Focus is an advanced autofocus plugin for NINA, written by George Hilios. How does it work? How do I optimize the settings?
Optimal focus and sensor orientation are crucial for high-quality data collection and imaging. The scientific and mathematical concepts behind them are well-understood and straightforward, but difficult to put into practice. For example, how do you distinguish actual stars from cosmic rays? How do you prevent hot pixels from skewing results, and get repeatable measurements despite sensor noise? George will describe how he addressed these problems with Hocus Focus, and the meanings behind the Advanced Star Detection settings. He will also describe how its Aberration Inspector uses these star measurements to model tilt and backfocus error with an approach developed in collaboration with Frank Freestar8n, Ph.D. Optical Sciences.

George Hilios is a contributor to the NINA open source astro-imaging suite. His contributions
include dome support, dome/scope synchronization, center after drift, and several plugins such as
Hocus Focus, Orbitals, and 10 Micron Tools. George is a professional software engineer with almost 2
decades of experience developing operating systems (Windows) and distributed systems such as search
engines and Big Data platforms for data scientists. George is a member of the AAA Astronomy club in
NYC, and lives in Warwick, NY with his wife and 2 young astronomy-loving children.

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