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PHD2 (OpenPHD)
PHD2 2.2.0 Feature List
- Multi-threading to improve responsiveness in the user interface
- Support for adaptive optics devices
- More extensive visualization tools
- Display of guide commands when they are issued
- Display of errors and statistics in units of arc-seconds or pixels
- "Target/bulls-eye" display
- Customizable color schemes
- Display of adaptive optics corrections including mount "bumps"
- Dockable/moveable windows
- Enhanced support for ASCOM mounts
- Declination compensation
- Automatic detection and adjustment for pier flip with German equatorial mounts
- Improved calibration
- Calculator for determining optimal calibration guide pulse
- Automatic "save" and optional reload of calibration data
- Faster re-centering during calibration
- Streamlined device connection
- Single form with "connect all" option for all devices
- Equipment profiles for managing multiple guiding configurations
- Direct connection to ASCOM devices without reliance on ASCOM "chooser"
- Better support for third-party application integration including Sequence Generator Pro
- Standardized server interface
- Event monitoring interface
- Improved dark frame handling
- Automatic exposure-time "matching"
- Support for "dark libraries" and "bad-pixel maps" across multiple program executions
- Wider set of choices for declination guide algorithms
- Expanded features for"manual" guiding and trouble-shooting
- User-defined pulse length
- Manual dithering
- More sophisticated mount/camera/AO simulators for "daylight" experimentation and familiarization
- Polar alignment function
- Support for bookmarks to keep track of guide star locations
- "Sticky" lock position option for keeping the lock position in place when guiding is stopped and restarted, or after calibration
- Improved screen brightness adjustment
- Extended logging support including user-defined directory locations
- Localization for French-speaking users
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