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Good news on the Flea3 Front
Well, I got some great help from Oscar at Point Grey support. Turns out that release 23 of the older program FlyCapture 1.8 does in fact let me save AVI files from the Flea3. The GUI for the older program is not as cool as the one provided with FlyCapture 2.0, but it does have a built in save AVI file utility and the pgrcam.inf file supplied with it has the information needed to run the Flea3. I am still learning to use it, but it looks like I may actually get to use the camera, if the sky ever clears up.
The Murphy's law corollary for astronomy has really been working overtime in NJ. It has been cloudy since the new camera arrived and has been raining for the past two days now and no clearing in sight. Well, that will give me time to learn to use the software and make an adapter for the camera. The C-mount threads on the tiny 1" cube camera are machined on the inner bore of a 1/2" long 1.09" OD tube attached to the CCD side of the cube. I made a short split sleeve of 1.25" OD aluminum tubing which fits the outside of the C-mount of the camera. It holds onto the camera by friction and grips the camera when I tighten the screw on my eyepiece holder. Should work nicely. Looks like I have a big cable coupling stuck into my focuser. Where's the camera?
I understand that later versions of the compiled FlyCapture 2.0 program will include an AVI capture utility.
Clif
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