Fisch Image Lab was conceived and written by Greg Fisch. Over the past 20 years, Greg has developed a number of sophisticated software projects ranging from six-legged, walking robots to CT Scanners. Many projects were involved directly with Astronomy or Space research.
One of Greg's best known projects was a program called Epoch 2000. This program was one of the early Desktop Observatory programs. It featured a high-accuracy starmap, telescope control and image processing all in one program! The software was eventually purchased in 1995 by Meade Intruments Corporation. Meade is still supplying a version of the software with their telescopes and imagers.
With today's advanced telescopes and low-cost, high-quality imagers, everyone interested in Astronomy can produce breath taking Astronomical images using Fisch Image Lab software.
Image Capture
Sophisticated, easy to use CCD/CMOS imager controller
Automatic stacking and rotation that allows imaging with telescopes in Alt-Az configuration
Telescope guiding in either Alt-Az or Equatorial modes
Separate control of Main Imager and Guider
Filter wheel support (on selected imagers)
Automatic Bias Frame, Dark Frame and Flat Field processing while the image is being captured.
Images automatically added into a SQL Database for easy cataloging and searching
Image Processing
High-precision, floating point image processing
32-bit Monochrome
96-bit Color.
Image Prescaler to quickly and accurately fit full-range images into the limited range of computer monitors
All image processing functions work with either RGB or Monochrome images
Convolution filters: Average, Gaussian Blur, Sharpen, Edge-enhance, and many others
Additive, Average and Median Combine merge features
RGB Merge with Luminance and color only function.
Simple image registration facility built into the Merge and RGB Merge functions
Digital Development Processing
Unlimited Undo/Redo
And many other features
System Reguirements:
Operating Systems : Windows® XP, Vista and 7
Drive space needed: 7.6MB
Web browser: Windows® Internet Explorer 7 or greater, Mozilla Firefox®