From: Milton Aupperle <milton@outcastsoft.com>

Date: October 6, 2009 3:33:02 PM MDT

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: [Astro_IIDC] scorpion first light


Hi Allan;


Glad it's working for you.


The Hirose Connector, Tripod socket things and FireWire cables (usually 2) and FireWire 800 PCI card are included in that $100 PGR dev kit. I'm pretty sure you could order the socket thing form OGR if you really need it.


Using the camera in 16 bit depth (12 actual) would help a lot if your going after LCROSS. You'd 4 times as many grays (4096 versus 256) than with the TIS cameras.


With the Grasshopper, I get 16384 shades, so if it's even faintly there I likely can pick it it up with a bit of log stretching. that is assuming it isn't snowing on Thursday night / Friday morning in Calgary. It's supposed to be -8°C that morning, which likely means it could be clearing late thursday night.


TTYL..


Milton J. Aupperle


On 6-Oct-09, at 3:07 PM, Alan Friedman wrote:


Hi all,


I received the Scorpion 1600x1200 camera today. Brought a nikkor C

mount adapter and a 35mm camera lens with me to work because I knew I

would just have to plug it in and try it out:


http://www.avertedimagination.com/images/scorpion_firstlight_sm.jpg


I now have to go back and read the AstroIIDC manual to learn about the

features that are available on this camera that are not available on

the DMK cameras. A lot of new menu options appear that didn't before.

Milton, thanks for that 92 page reference!


I was able to figure out how to set the Region of Interest (ROI)

field. This should be a big advantage in my solar imaging work, where

I am currently switching cameras back and forth between the 41DMK for

its wide field and the 21DMK for its 60fps capture rate.


The Scorpion camera is quite beautifully made with its machined

aluminum housing and radiused edges - the gray Pt. Grey anodizing

coordinates nicely with my MacBook Pro. No tripod mounting socket is

included BTW.


Tim - thanks very much for posting the heads up on these cameras.


cheers,

Alan