Features include:

• Semi-automatic alignment of pictures
• Fully automatic alignment of pictures
• Automatic adjustment of the luminosity of the different pictures
• Calculation of an optimal colour palette
• Softening the process of «gluing» the different images together (the centre of a picture is always given preference).

Completely configurable : You can write scripts to automate all types of observations and even completely redesign the graphic user interface. The powerful and increasingly widespread scripting language used is TCL/TK, which is easy to learn. Ready-to-use and free scripts are available.

Multi-purpose : AudeLA enables not only camera control, but also full telescope control, locally or at long distance via a network.

Automation : AudeLA is especially conceived to automate the set of tasks necessary for a particular topic of observation. For example, if you want to make a survey of supernovae, AudeLA will be able to manage your telescope and camera without your intervention, will begin the observations at the beginning of night, take care of the pointing and shooting of the chosen galaxies, save the images and will finish off at the end of the night.

Philosophy of Aude and Audine: It controls the Audine camera. But can also control other cameras well (Genesis 16, SBIG-ST7, Hi-SIS11, Hi-SIS22, CookBook-245, Starlight-MX5, webcams, and Kitty-237) and several mountings (all protocols LX200 (Meade, Sky Sensor 2000, etc), AudeCom and Ouranos).

Note: The source of a c version you can compile in Linux is offered.

The goal of the program is to facilitate curiousity and tinkering, as well as providing an impressive real-time movie of the galactic interactions.

Famous twisted galaxies like M51 and NGC 4038/9 can be nicely modeled using this program. Matter bridges, tidal tails, and ring galaxies can all be neatly demonstrated in real time.

An «old timer», dating back to 1997.