art-den / electra_stacking

Software for stacking astronimical images of deep sky objects

Electra

Software for stacking of deep sky astronomical images

Prerequisites for Windows

• Rust compiler (i686-pc-windows-gnu): https://www.rust-lang.org/tools/install
• MSYS: https://www.msys2.org/
• Libs and tools (type inside MSYS command line):

pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-cfitsio
pacman -S mingw-w64-x86_64-gtk3 mingw-w64-x86_64-pkg-config
pacman -S base-devel mingw-w64-x86_64-gcc libxml2-devel tar

Env. variable for gettext-rs (can be set globally in Windows setting or locally before build):

set MSYSTEM_PREFIX=c:\msys64\mingw64

Prerequisites for Linux

• Rust compiler: https://www.rust-lang.org/tools/install
• Libs and tools:

sudo apt install gcc libgtk-3-dev build-essential libcfitsio-dev

How to build

To build optimized binaries just type

cargo build --release

Simple documentation

Unfortunately only google translation https://art--den-github-io.translate.goog/electra_stacking/?_x_tr_sl=ru&_x_tr_tl=en

Why Electra?

Electra is star in the Pleiades cluster: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electra_(star)