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Old 17-08-2010, 12:20 PM
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Post Home Built CCD Camera

Came across this whilst looking around for different photometry software packages to look at for my 2nd assignment. This guy has made his own CCD camera that's self guiding!!!. It's a 3Mpx camera. Comes with all the software and such to run it and he has even put the plans and such for it online for anyone to download. He also designed some photometry software to go with it. Looks alright. Could do with a clean up inside though....wires everywhere!!!!

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http://astro.corlan.net/cpx3m/index.html
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Old 17-08-2010, 02:18 PM
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Interesting :-)

Some time ago, I posted this thread:
http://www.iceinspace.com.au/forum/s...ad.php?t=37144
The offer is still pending :-)
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Old 17-08-2010, 05:31 PM
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Always good to hear of people pushing the boundaries. The Cookbook home made CCD camera many believe revolutionised CCD imaging making it more affordable for the average Joe. Shame its still not available today. Have to say that I'm not sure if his set up would be considered cheap. A Kodak KAF-3200E would probably be 60% of the cost! Hope he doesn't get done over by the SBIG legal team for self guiding functionality.
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Old 17-08-2010, 05:57 PM
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Very interesting, specially since it includes code and PCB circuits/layouts.

I see that Kodak sells development boards for sensors also, often wondered if that would be an economical way to build a cam, with a bit of interfacing work. I have no idea what they would charge for 1 off sensor chip sales (compared to a volume OEM), if you can even buy them that way, perhaps a one off buy would render the exersize unviable?.
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