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  Date: Jan 02    Category: Unix / Linux / Ubuntu    Views: 186
  

I just started messin with Linux last week. I've got The UUE loaded
and I am trying to get some of my astronomy apps to run. For those of
you that know of them I have The Sky 6 up, but I don't know if it will
run my mount yet (serial port) as I haven't got to try it. I also have
Maxim DL/CCD 4.11 running, but I have a problem that I'm trying to
understand. I am trying to get Maxim to recognize a USB CCD camera
(FLI) and it won't do it. I can look in the device manager and see it
connected up and it even has it labeled correctly, except it calls it
a caera instead of a camera.
Normally, in XP, when you plug the camera in to the computer it makes
a ka-dunk noise on the speaker and then it shows up in the "Connect
To" box of Maxim. But I can't get it to either ka-dunk or show up. But
I can see it. I am so close with this.
I installed Maxim with Wine and poked at it for a while then I wiped
the hard drive and loaded UUE and reinstalled it with Wine-doors and
Wine. It looks much better now.
I tried to load the windows camera driver from FLI and it puts the
icons on the desktop, but they won't find the camera either. Sounds
like a USB problem

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4 Answers Found

 
Answer #1    Answered On: Jan 02    

what is the make and model of the cam? I know you want to have a long
exposer time and getting a program for it is not easy.
https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Home?action=fullsearch&context=180&value=camera&titlesea\
rch=Titles
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/UbuntuScience/Astronomy
My son wants me to get a cam for his telescope, but cash is not easy right now.
At least we belong to http://www.cedar-astronomers.org/ and can vid the stars
with the big telescopes.

 
Answer #2    Answered On: Jan 02    

It's a Finger Lakes Instruments IMG6303e

 
Answer #3    Answered On: Jan 02    

DL the tar ball and how to get it unpack go to this link
http://monkeyblog.org/ubuntu/installing/
or

psychocats.net/ubuntu/installingsoftware#other

 
Answer #4    Answered On: Jan 02    

PS at least it a full moon out and you have some time to play with it till the
next cycle.

 
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