CCDs supported under KStars 

Overview

KStars supports a large number of astronomical instruments provided by the INDI Library. By default, KStars only ships the CCD simulator driver, all other CCD drivers are shipped separately as 3rd party INDI drivers. Binary packages for these drivers are available for several distributions, including Ubuntu. Please check INDI website for download details. All CCD drivers (including webcams) send the image in FITS format, which are then displayed in KStars FITS Viewer tool. Using INDI control panel, you can capture images, set temperature, subframe, binning, and frame type (dark, light, bias..etc). To capture a sequence of images with filter wheel support, please use Ekos capture module included with KStars. The drivers can record in the FITS file the target's equatorial coordinates, filters used, JD, and more metadata. A CCD may be either designated as the primary CCD or a guider CCD in KStars Ekos tool. After an image is displayed in the FITS Viewer tool, you may perform some basic adjustments to the image including low pass and histogram equalization filters. Furthermore, KStars can detect and mark stars given that overall noise within an image is not too high. As with other INDI drivers, you may run a CCD driver either directly or remotely. For remote operations, compression of FITS data is recommended.

CCDs

The following is a list of CCDs supported under KStars:

Manufaturer	Model	Image	Driver	Support Status
Quantum Scientific Imaging (QSI)	All models		indi_qsi_ccd	✅
Santa Barbra Instruments Group (SBIG)	All models		indi_sbig_ccd	✅
QHY, Orion	QHY5, Orion Star Shoot Autoguider		indi_qhy_ccd	✅
Starlight Xpress	All models, including Loadstar Autoguider.		indi_sx_ccd	✅
Cannon	EOS DSLR		indi_gphoto_ccd	✅
Apogee	Alta-E & Alta-U		indi_apogeeu_ccd, indi_apogeee_ccd	✅
Finger Lakes Instruments	All models		indi_fli_ccd	✅
Webcams	Any camera supported by Video4Linux. KStars also support live video feed from webcams.		indi_v4l_generic	✅

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