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Apogee Alta U2 from eBay. MSRP is about $6k, was $800 which was the best I could find for a cooled CCD with USB

2018-05-22

• Ubuntu 16 on main laptop
• http://www.randomfactory.com/apogee-lfa.html
• What was the relationship between libapogee and indi?
  • IIRC libapogee got discontinued
  • However, they didn't move the examples over
  • Should reach out to the devs
• Using indi
  • https://github.com/indilib/indi.git
  • 58b26c584049e1b9ecd55aa5f4a225677a417898
• Cooled CCD (Alta U2) frontside optical emissions imaging test: unable to see any activity despite 1 hour exposure + histogram equalization (raw image appears black)
  • Used minipro
  • https://github.com/JohnDMcMaster/uvscada/blob/master/emmap/
    • I think

Some commands I ran

mcmaster@phantom:~/doc/sw/libapogee/libapogee-3.0.3234$ 
./configure --enable-python-wrapper


# sudo apt-get install -y libcurl4-openssl-dev libboost-regex1.58.0  libboost-regex-dev  libboost-regex1.58-dev python-dev swig cdbs libcfitsio-dev libnova-dev libusb-1.0-0-dev libjpeg-dev libusb-dev libtiff5-dev libftdi-dev fxload libkrb5-dev libcurl4-gnutls-dev libraw-dev libgphoto2-dev libgsl0-dev dkms libboost-regex-dev libgps-dev libdc1394-22-dev
# hmm conflicts
sudo apt-get install -y libboost-regex1.58.0  libboost-regex-dev  libboost-regex1.58-dev python-dev swig cdbs libcfitsio-dev libnova-dev libusb-1.0-0-dev libjpeg-dev libusb-dev libtiff5-dev libftdi-dev fxload libkrb5-dev libraw-dev libgphoto2-dev libgsl0-dev dkms libboost-regex-dev libgps-dev libdc1394-22-dev
sudo apt-get install -y libcurl4-openssl-dev

sudo apt-get install -y indi-apogee indi-sbig kstars kstars-data kstars-data-extra-tycho2 libapogee-dev libapogee2


mcmaster@phantom:~/doc/sw/libapogee/libapogee-3.0.3234/examples$ LD_LIBRARY_PATHA=/home/mcmaster/doc/ext/indi/3rdparty/libapogee ./SimpleExposure && python decode.py 
    Apogee Alta Simple Exposoure Sample
    Connected to Alta camera 
    Cam Info: 
    model = AltaU-2
    max # imaging rows = 1024       max # imaging cols = 1536
    Starting a 0.03 sec light exposure
    Retrieving image data from camera
    Writing image to file
    Closing connection to camera 
mv simpleExposure.{bin,png} ref

2018-08-26

• Did some tests a while back on main laptop
• Setting up to run on uvforge laptop

2018-08-27

sudo apt-get install -y libboost-regex1.58.0  libboost-regex-dev  libboost-regex1.58-dev python-dev swig cdbs libcfitsio-dev libnova-dev libusb-1.0-0-dev libjpeg-dev libusb-dev libtiff5-dev libftdi-dev fxload libkrb5-dev libraw-dev libgphoto2-dev libgsl0-dev dkms libboost-regex-dev libgps-dev libdc1394-22-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev cmake
git clone https://github.com/indilib/indi.git
pushd indi/3rdparty/libapogee
mkdir build
cd build
cmake ..
make -j$(nproc)
popd
tar -xf libapogee-3.0.3234.tar
cd libapogee-3.0.3234/examples
LD_LIBRARY_PATHA=/home/mcmaster/doc/ext/indi/3rdparty/libapogee ./SimpleExposure && python decode.py 


maybe just try using lindi directly
sudo apt-get install libnova-dev libcfitsio-dev libusb-1.0-0-dev zlib1g-dev libgsl-dev build-essential cmake git libjpeg-dev libcurl4-gnutls-dev
sudo apt-get install libftdi-dev libgps-dev libraw-dev libgphoto2-dev libboost-dev libboost-regex-dev librtlsdr-dev libftdi1-dev libfftw3-dev

libapogee

wget http://www.randomfactory.com/downloads/libapogee-3.0.3234.tgz
tar -xf libapogee-3.0.3234.tgz
cd libapogee-3.0.3234
sed -i s/-lboost_regex-mt/-lboost_regex/ apogee/Makefile*
./configure
make -j$(nproc)

micromanager

C:\Program Files\Micro-Manager-1.4\MMConfig_apogee.cfg

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