(meteorobs) Camera Issues

[Chris Peterson]

The ST-237 isn't a very good camera for recording meteors. For that you want 
video frame rates. All of the meteor recognition programs I'm aware of 
expect video, from a frame grabber or webcam type interface. None will work 
with a camera like the ST237. If you want to use that, you'll probably need 
to spin something yourself. The SBIG driver interface is documented, or you 
can use an existing astronomical camera app like Maxim, and just write a 
little script to manage sequential captures.

Chris

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Chris L Peterson
Cloudbait Observatory
http://www.cloudbait.com


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kim Hay" <cdnspooky at persona.ca>
To: <meteorobs at meteorobs.org>
Sent: Saturday, August 30, 2008 5:24 AM
Subject: (meteorobs) Camera Issues


> Upon my last email, we have just installed HandiAVI however, since
> the camera we use is the SBIG-ST237A model it has parallel ports to
> plug into in the computer.  The HandiAVI does not see it, how can we
> make it available as a windows media device.
>
> The computer system is Windows XP Pro, service pack 3 running on a P3-
> 800.
>
> We have the divix installed, and is there some other driver we need
> to get this program running.  The program does what we want, so we
> now wanting to switch.
>
> We are currently running CCDSoft version 5. Have tried the
> UFOsofware, but did not work as we wanted it to.
>
>
> So camera guru's out there, any suggestions?
>
>
>
> Kim Hay