Automated Object Detection in Wide-Field Frames
IdeaUsing OpenCV to automatically detect and catalogue stars, galaxies and nebulae within a single wide-field frame.
Computer visionOpenCVPython
Plan is to run star detection (blob/contour detection in OpenCV) over the mosaic shots first, since they've got the most going on in one frame — separating point sources (stars) from extended objects (nebulosity, galaxy cores) automatically rather than eyeballing it.
Stretch goal: cross-reference detected coordinates against a catalogue to auto-label known objects in-frame.