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Colour Camera Settings |
  
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Colour Camera Settings |
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The AllSkEye software supports 'One Shot Colour' cameras by de-bayering image data. To enable colour support for your camera you have to set the correct Bayer filter matrix in the application settings (under 'Monochrome / Colour Settings'). The following options are supported:
| • | Monochrome |
| • | RGGB |
| • | GRBG |
| • | GBRG |
| • | BGGR |
Settings
The following settings are available to configure colour cameras:
Manual White Balance
To allow some adjustment of white balance for the created colour images the settings also allow a manual increase or decrease of each colour channel. These are factors that will be multiplied with each channel to change the colour balance:
| • | Red White Balance |
| • | Green White Balance |
| • | Blue White Balance |
Please Note:
Some cameras already contain a manual colour balance mechanism which can be influenced by camera specific settings (for example ASI ZWO and QHY cameras). AllSkEye also exposes these camera specific colour balance settings as additional settings in the same section:
These settings are applied directly in the camera driver before the image gets handed to AllSkEye and are in addition to the other white balance controls which come after. For cameras exposing such controls it might be better to use these built in settings in the first instance and leave the AllSkEye white balance settings at 0.
Auto White Balance (PRO)
AllSkEye also includes a (fairly basic) auto white balance mechanism which can be enabled in the camera settings.
The advanced 'Auto White Balance Adj Point %' setting determines if the colours will be pushed towards the brightest or dimmest colour channel e.g. if set to 100% then the dimmer colour channels will be increased to match the brightest one. If 0% is set then the brighter channels will be decreased, if set to 50% then on will be increased and one will be decreased.
AllSkEye has a colour smoothing mechanism which can be used to combat hot or random pixel by adjusting pixel that do not fit with their neighboring pixel in terms of colour.
The only setting here is 'Color Smoothing Aggressiveness' which determines how much adjustment will happen. It is best to start with a small value (1) and keep increasing the value to seem at which point artefacts will start to appear (or until the image gets too soft).