diff --git a/capture-image.py b/capture-image.py
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..06dd883
--- /dev/null
+++ b/capture-image.py
@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+#!/usr/bin/env python
+
+# python-gphoto2 - Python interface to libgphoto2
+# http://github.com/jim-easterbrook/python-gphoto2
+# Copyright (C) 2015-22  Jim Easterbrook  jim@jim-easterbrook.me.uk
+#
+# This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+# it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+# the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+# (at your option) any later version.
+#
+# This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+# but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+# MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+# GNU General Public License for more details.
+#
+# You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+# along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+
+import logging
+import locale
+import os
+import subprocess
+import sys
+
+import gphoto2 as gp
+
+def main():
+    locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, '')
+    logging.basicConfig(
+        format='%(levelname)s: %(name)s: %(message)s', level=logging.WARNING)
+    callback_obj = gp.check_result(gp.use_python_logging())
+    camera = gp.Camera()
+    camera.init()
+    print('Capturing image')
+    file_path = camera.capture(gp.GP_CAPTURE_IMAGE)
+    print('Camera file path: {0}/{1}'.format(file_path.folder, file_path.name))
+    target = os.path.join('/tmp', file_path.name)
+    print('Copying image to', target)
+    camera_file = camera.file_get(
+        file_path.folder, file_path.name, gp.GP_FILE_TYPE_NORMAL)
+    camera_file.save(target)
+    subprocess.call(['xdg-open', target])
+    camera.exit()
+    return 0
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    sys.exit(main())
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 1ab6f84..3793a48 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
 astropy
+gphoto2
 opencv-python
 zwoasi