# Guitastro Device Quickaudine library

GUITAstro stands for General Use of Instruments and Telescopes in ASTROnomy.

GuitAstro is a Python module that provides classes and methods to write easily Python scripts for astronomical observations. 

[GIT repository: https://gitlab.irap.omp.eu/guitastrolib/guitastro.git](https://gitlab.irap.omp.eu/guitastrolib/guitastro.git)

Guitastro device Quickaudine complete Guitastro to provide access to Quickaudine camera drivers:

[GIT repository: https://gitlab.irap.omp.eu/guitastrolib/guitastro_device_quickaudine.git](https://gitlab.irap.omp.eu/guitastrolib/guitastro_device_quickaudine.git)

## Few basic examples of use

First example: To connect a Quickaudine controler and acquire an image:

```
import guitastro

import guitastro_device_quickaudine

dev = Device_Quickaudine("QUICKAUDINE", name="Quickaudine")

dev.open(True)
dev.commandstring("camera SET exptime 0.1")
dev.commandstring("camera DO ACQ START")
while True:
    timer = dev.commandstring(camera GET timer)
    if timer == -1:
        break
    time.sleep(1)
ima = dev.component('camera').ima
ima.save("my_image.fit")
```

## Guitastro functionalities

GuitAstro device Quickaudine wraps the driver functions dispatched into the classes:

- **Device_Quickaudine**: Manage device Quickaudine drivers.

This class inheritate from the classes Component* of Guitastro.

As a consequece, it is needed to install Guitastro before using Guitastro Quickaudine.
Moreover, this class imports internally a Python wrapper to use the needed libraries.
You need to compile the python wrapper *wrapper_quickaudine*:

```

$ cd guitastro_device_quickaudine/src/wrapper_quickaudine

$ python setup.py build_ext --inplace
```

A complete documentation can be generated from .rst files in the folder doc/doc_rst

## Support and contact

The main author is alain.klotz@irap.omp.eu