Real-time Astrometry using Phase Congruency

Andrew Lambert, UNSW Canberra, Manuel Cegarra Polo, UNSW Canberra, YongYi Tang, UNSW Canberra

Keywords: phase congruency, real-time imaging, astrometry

Abstract:

Phase congruency is a computer vision technique that proves to perform well for determining the tracks of optical objects (Flewelling, AMOS 2014). We report on a real-time implementation of this using an FPGA and CMOS Image Sensor, with on-sky data. The lightweight instrument can provide tracking update signals to the mount of the telescope, as well as determine abnormal objects in the scene.

Date of Conference: September 15-18, 2015

Track: Poster

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