Ultimately the alignment system just needs to get a pixel X/Y in camera space that indicates where the center of the scopes field is. This should be possible in daylight with the user pointing at a distant object.
I propose toggle in the Align system (or a new menu item) for a daytime mode. This mode will:
- Greatly reduce the exposure time, ideally with something like auto-exposure provided by the PI image processing pipeline
- Display the camera image in full color
- Use the arrow keys to move the alignment pixel selector around, pixel by pixel. Perhaps this is coupled with 2 steps of quadrant selection
- Display a number on each quarter of the screen, pressing that number selects that quarter
- Subdivide this quarter in 4 new quarters, again allowing the user to select one
- This will end up with the pixel selector in the middle of a 32x32 (44x44) square, greatly reducing the number of arrow presses required to select the target pixel.
- We might even do a third round of quartering, but the user can abort at any time by using an arrow key and they can move the indicator outside the pre-selected section
Then we just record the selected pixel directly 👍
Ultimately the alignment system just needs to get a pixel X/Y in camera space that indicates where the center of the scopes field is. This should be possible in daylight with the user pointing at a distant object.
I propose toggle in the Align system (or a new menu item) for a daytime mode. This mode will:
Then we just record the selected pixel directly 👍