From: "Tim" <tjp314@pacbell.net>
Date: September 24, 2005 3:57:33 PM MDT
To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: Flea
Milton:
Boy, do I feel stupid. I thought that was just a body cap. Turns out the cap unscrews from
the extender tube. When I put that on the camera, all the lenses reach infinity focus fine!
;o)
-Tim.
--- In Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com, Milton Aupperle <milton@o...> wrote:
Hi Tim;
On 24-Sep-05, at 9:32 AM, Tim wrote:
Milton:
Got my new Flea camera in the mail yesterday! Now the marine layer
is back, though, so I
couldn't try it out on Mars this morning. I'll have to check and
see what time it's rising in the
evenings, because when we get one of these weather patterns, it's
almost always overcast by
3am or so.
It was clear here last night, but I was too tired to go out and futz
with that !@%$#$%$%^ Orion RA drive. It's runs slow (7 arc second per
second slow) so even trying to keep stars centered without active
guiding is virtually impossible. My replacement drive has been back
ordered and has taken 3 weeks now :(
The 4.5m firewire cable with the ferrite beads at the ends must be
the one that ships with the
Flea camera, because it looks like that.
Yep - it's a heavy duty monster.
So, since I can't see the sky, I've been playing a little with a
couple of lenses and my Mogg
adapters that came last week. So far, I've tried an 11mm C-mount
lens and a 70-210mm
Quantaray zoom lens with a Nikon bayonet mount. With both lenses,
but particularly the C-
mount lens, infinity focus seems to be out of reach, like there
needs to be an extension
between the Mogg adapter and the camera?
There should be a short (5mm) extender ring included in the box
which you screw into the camera and then it will work with C mount
lenses. If you have C/S mount lenses, then take the extender off.
On a side note, The Imaging Source have added their new "A" series
(21AF04, 31AF03, 41AF02 ) 8 bit monochrome and color cameras, which
are about $80 to $120 USD less than their "B" series (21BF04, 31BF03,
41BF02). The price difference is because the the "A" series don't
have trigger or I/O control pins and unless your doing Machine Vision
stuff, you don't need them.
HTH..
Milton J. Aupperle
President
ASC - Aupperle Services and Contracting
Mac Software (Drivers, Components and Application) Specialist
#1005 - 815 14th Avenue. S.W.
Calgary Alberta Canada T2R0N5
1-(403)-229-9456
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