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The GCX project



GCX in the latest incarnation of the cx camera control and data reduction program. It is written in C using Gtk+-1.2, and provided under the Gnu General Public License. It was tested on Linux and FreeBSD.

An introduction to the program can be read here.

A greatly updated version of the manual is now online. html  pdf

GCX in distributed in source code. Check the manual for build information.

The related cpx3m CCD camera project page is located here.  Also check the filter wheel project and cpxctrl, the camera server used by gcx; the current version supports cpx3m cameras.

The project is listed on freshmeat at http://freshmeat.net/gcx. To receive news of new releases, you can subscribe there.


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ChangeLog

Downloads:

gcx-0.7.6.tar.gz             Complete source code distribution, including documentation and example data.

cpxctrl-0.2.3.tar.gz       Source tree of the camera server.

edb-catalogs.tar.gz        A few useful object catalogs in edb format

scint.txt                         A table of estimated scintillation noise values for various airmasses, telescope apertures and integration times.

Older Versions

gcx-0.7.5.tar.gz

gcx-0.7.4.tar.gz

gcx-0.7.3.tar.gz

gcx-0.7.2.tar.gz

gcx-0.7.1.tar.gz 

gcx-0.6.1.tar.gz    

gcx-0.5.9.tar.gz   

gcx-0.5.8.tar.gz 

gcx-0.5.6.tar.gz 

gcx-0.5.5.tar.gz                 

gcx-0.5.3.tar.gz                 

gcx-0.5.1.tar.gz                 

gcx-0.4.6.tar.gz                 

gcx-0.4.5.tar.gz                 

gcx-0.4.3.tar.gz                 

gcx-0.4.2.tar.gz