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<div class="section" id="introduction">
<span id="id1"></span><h1>Introduction<a class="headerlink" href="#introduction" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1>
<p>The software package C-Munipack presents the complete system for reduction of
images carried out by a CCD or DSLR camera, oriented at the observation of variable stars.
The specific programs of reduction process can be called from command line or
via intuitive graphical user interface.</p>
<p>The project is based on the previous Munipack package, the programs have the
same name, but contrary to Munipack, it is coded in C/C++ language and it contains
a several new functions and tools in addition. Assignment of the command-line
parameters and the configuration files is similar in both projects, exceptions
are described in the project documentation.</p>
<p>The graphical user interface, which was build upon the portable GTK+ toolkit, should
be familiar for Munidos users, but it takes full advantage of graphical environment, and
therefore the interface is more comfortable and enables user an improved control over
reduction process in comparison with original interface of Munidos.</p>
<div class="section" id="features-and-capabilities">
<h2>Features and capabilities<a class="headerlink" href="#features-and-capabilities" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>The following list is a short overview of some of the features that the C-Munipack
software provides:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li>Powerful graphical user interface that runs on most up-to-date operating systems.</li>
<li>Conversion of CCD frames from several input formats (see below) into the standard FITS format.</li>
<li>Calibration of CCD frames; correction of observation time, bias-frame correction, dark-frame correction,
flat-flat correction and heliocentric correction.</li>
<li>Aperture photometry using fully configurable set of apertures of different sizes.</li>
<li>Automatic finding corresponding stars on a set of frames.</li>
<li>Easy-to-use making light curves for selected stars; either differential curves or instrumental
(row) magnitudes for further processing.</li>
<li>Semiautomatic detection of new and unknown variable stars on a view field.</li>
<li>Computation of air mass coefficient.</li>
<li>Combining a set of bias, dark and flat frames into high quality master-bias, master-dark and
master-flat correction frames.</li>
<li>Static or shared library with an extensive set of functions, that can be called using simple application
building interface.</li>
<li>A complete set of user commands that can be used for automatic surveys.</li>
</ul>
<p>The following input formats are supported:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li>The FITS format with many date and time formats.</li>
<li>The SBIG’s ST-x compressed and uncompressed formats.</li>
<li>The OES Astro format</li>
<li>Selected models of DSLR camera raw format: CRW, NEF <a class="footnote-reference" href="#id3" id="id2">[1]</a></li>
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<div class="section" id="what-can-not-the-software-do">
<h2>What can NOT the software do?<a class="headerlink" href="#what-can-not-the-software-do" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<ul class="simple">
<li>It doesn’t control a camera or a telescope of any manufacturer.</li>
<li>It doesn’t compute the absolute standard magnitudes of measured objects.</li>
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<div class="section" id="authors">
<span id="index-0"></span><h2>Authors<a class="headerlink" href="#authors" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>The project manager David Motl is also the author of the most part of the source codes.
Some small pieces of the sources originate from Munipack package, coded by Filip Hroch.
Algorithms for aperture photometry originate from Daophot software by P. B. Stetson.
Munifind algorithm originates from Varfind tool coded by Lukas Kral. The code of the lossless
JPEG decoder incorporated in the DSLR image reader originates from Dave Coffin’s dcraw utility.</p>
<p>The package uses the following third party software:</p>
<ul class="simple">
<li>FITSIO library, written by Dr. William Pence, NASA</li>
<li>EXPAT library, written by James Clark’s</li>
<li>GTK+ toolkit, developed by the The GTK+ Team</li>
<li>IJG JPEG library by Independent JPEG Group</li>
<li>Sphinx documentation generator</li>
<li>MikTex implementation of Tex typesetting system</li>
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<div class="section" id="license-and-copying">
<span id="index-1"></span><h2>License and copying<a class="headerlink" href="#license-and-copying" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the terms of the GNU General Public License version 2 as published by the Free
Software Foundation.</p>
<p>This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS
FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the LICENSE file for more details.</p>
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<span id="index-2"></span><h2>Where can I get the latest version?<a class="headerlink" href="#where-can-i-get-the-latest-version" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>The project is hosted by the SourceForge. The latest version of the binaries, source codes
and documentation are available on the following address:</p>
<p><a class="reference external" href="http://c-munipack.sourceforge.net/">http://c-munipack.sourceforge.net/</a></p>
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<h2>What’s new in version 2.0<a class="headerlink" href="#what-s-new-in-version-2-0" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2>
<p>The main goals of this version is to allow one to define and work with multiple datasets (they are
called projects). In previous versions, when you wanted to start a new task, you have to remove
the frames that were registered in the application while deleting all temporary files (photometry files, etc.).
Now, each task (project) has its own directory and the temporary files as well as the configuration
is kept in it. One can easily switch between tasks easily or even work on multiple tasks at a time.</p>
<p class="rubric">Footnotes</p>
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<tr><td class="label"><a class="fn-backref" href="#id2">[1]</a></td><td>Please read <a class="reference internal" href="processing_raw_images.html#processing-raw-images"><em>Processing RAW images</em></a> article before using the C-Munipack software
to process snapshots from a DSLR camera.</td></tr>
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<li><a class="reference internal" href="#license-and-copying">License and copying</a></li>
<li><a class="reference internal" href="#where-can-i-get-the-latest-version">Where can I get the latest version?</a></li>
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