Shiny is a Linux/KDE/Qt - based program for controlling various CCDs from SBIG.  In addition to basic CCD operations, Shiny includes a feature specifically for looking at spectral images and creating quick wavelength vs. intensity plots.  This software was developed for an astronomy research group at St. Cloud State University that wanted to move their image acquisition stage away from Windows and onto Linux where the rest of their work was done.

Current features include:

• Control of SBIG ST-5C, ST-237, ST-7, ST-8, CFW8, and AO-7 CCDs via the libsbig driver written by Steve Ashe (See http://www.sbig.com/sbwhtmls/softpbod.htm#Section VIII).  Note: Although all of these CCDs are supposedly supported by the driver, the only model that I have access to is the ST-8.  For this reason, I cannot guarantee that any of the rest really work with Shiny.  If you get it working with any of these, Email me please.
• Control of SBIG ST-4, ST-5, and ST-6 serial port CCDs.  Note:  As with the parallel port models, the only one of these cameras that I have is the ST-6.  Again, if you get this working with the others, let me know.
  
• Images can be saved as FITS and PNG files.
• Intensity vs. wavelength plots of spectra can be quickly displayed by simply selecting a horizontal section of the image with the mouse.

Requirements:

• KDE (and QT) version 3.0 or later is recommended, but there is a separately packaged version for KDE 2.  The KDE 2 version, however, is not able to print.

Download:
        Note: SHINY is still a work-in-progress and should be considered beta-level software.

       The newest version of SHINY is 0.3.  Get it below.

       http://r2d2.stcloudstate.edu/~shiny/shiny-0.3.tar.gz

       Browse Source code at our Subversion repository
       Or check out the source tree by
       svn checkout http://r2d2.stcloudstate.edu/svn/shiny/trunk shiny

       Readme
       Change log


Email:

    shiny@r2d2.stcloudstate.edu

Screen shots (click to enlarge):

       
An image of mercury light taken with an ST-8 with an intensity vs. wavelength plot.


     
Two images taken with the ST-6 with an intensity vs. wavelength plot.



The image display window.