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.
   Screenshot
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.
   Screenshot
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.
   Screenshot
4. KOPR Analyzer Powerful tool to do light curve analysis, and modeling comet brightness into future from actual observations.
   Screenshot
5. KOPR Comparison Compare light curves and observations of multiple comets.
   Screenshot

Download

KOPR Download

• Live version of KOPR source codes.
• KOPR Beta Live version, source code in Python 3 (Updated: 2023/12/10, 13:31:54)
• KOPR Beta Live version, source code in Python 2 (Updated: 2023/10/13, 23:28:52)

• Official releases of KOPR.

• KOPR Beta - v0.83 - source code in Python 3
• KOPR Beta - v0.83 - compiled .exe file for Windows 64 bit
• Release notes: Fixed 1P Halley returns in analyser and Ranges in Comparison

• KOPR Beta - v0.82 - source code in Python 3
• KOPR Beta - v0.82 - compiled .exe file for Windows 64 bit
• Release notes: Added new feature coparison of comet light curves, Change in local Yale Bright Star catalog, cobs update dialog fix, wccd small fixes, add local data edit to analyzer, fix comet load, planner optimized, mpc data load fix, fix clear not working all stars in wccd, extinction crash fix, unicode error fixed

• KOPR Beta - v0.81 - source code in Python 3
• KOPR Beta - v0.81 - compiled .exe file for Windows 64 bit
• Release notes: Added Yale Bright Star catalog to online and offline source for KOPR Visual, Fixed "UnboundLocalError: cannot access local variable 'content'"

• KOPR Beta - v0.80 - source code in Python 3
• KOPR Beta - v0.80 - compiled .exe file for Windows 64 bit
• Release notes: First testing release of software in Python 3.

• KOPR Beta - v0.77 - source code in Python 2
• KOPR Beta - v0.77 - compiled .exe file for Windows 64 bit
• Release notes: Latest stable release in Python 2.

Offline catalogs

• APASS Data Release 10, down to 14 magnitude (298.4 MB Download)
• Description: Selection of data from APASS Data Release 10 for comet photometry. Stars with V magnitude brighter than 14 mag.

• APASS Data Release 10, down to 16 magnitude (1.3 GB Download)
• Description: Selection of data from APASS Data Release 10 for comet photometry. Stars with V magnitude brighter than 16 mag.

• Tycho 2 Catalogue (48.1 MB Download)
• Description: B and V magnitudes from Tycho 2 catalogue.

• Yale Bright Star Catalogue 5 (114.1 kB Download) - for KOPR Live and versions 0.82 and higher
• Description: V magnitudes and B-V indexes for bright stars up to 7 mag.

• Yale Bright Star Catalogue 5 (114.1 kB Download)
• Description: V magnitudes and B-V indexes for bright stars up to 7 mag.

Installation

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

comming soon ...