KOPR - Software for Comet Observers

KOPR is an open source software for planning observing sessions, process visual and CCD observations of comets and analyze observed data. It contains 4 major features:

  1. KOPR Visual It allows to process visual estimates of comets with magnitude sources from TYC2 or APASS catalog and generate results in ICQ format.
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  2. KOPR CCD Provides a photometric measure of total coma brightness of stacked images with astrometry in fits header and generates results in ICQ and CARA Afrho formats.
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  3. KOPR Planner Allows observer to generate ephemeris and visibility diagrams, based on real magnitudes of observed comets calculated from realtime data from COBS.si.
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  4. KOPR Analyzer Powerful tool to do light curve analysis, and modeling comet brightness into future from actual observations.
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  5. KOPR Comparison Compare light curves and observations of multiple comets.
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Download

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Offline catalogs

Installation

Running Live version from source code in Python 3:

  1. Unpack files to your desired directory.
  2. In command line, go to directory with files and run the command "python setup.py" which will install required libraries to your Python.
  3. If any other library is required, you will get "No module named 'modulename'" error. Simpy install the module with pip command: "pip install 'modulename'" .
  4. Run KOPR using "python kopr.py" command in KOPR directory.
  5. After program will start, insert your name, location, telescopes, eyepieces or cameras. Now you can use the KOPR software.

Running from source code in Python 3:

  1. Unpack files to your desired directory.
  2. Required packages in Python3 are: Pyqt5, Matplotlib, Numpy, Astropy, make sure if they are installed, otherwise install them using "pip" command.
  3. In command line, go to "astrolib3" directory and run the command "python setup.py install" which will install "alb3" library to your Python.
  4. Run KOPR using "python kopr.py" command in KOPR directory.
  5. After program will start, insert your name, location, telescopes, eyepieces or cameras. Now you can use the KOPR software.

Running from source code in Python 2:

Unfortunatelly Python 2 is not supported for years and so are the packages. Required packages are Pyqt4, Matplotlib, Numpy, Kapteyn (for Linux), pywcs (for Windows). Otherwise it's same as for Python 3.

Running compiled .exe under Windows, or WINE (Linux):

Simply run kopr.exe, with connection to internet. It will simply create required directories and files and download basic data. After that just configure your KOPR and use it.

Documentation

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