From: Milton Aupperle <milton@outcastsoft.com>

Date: March 3, 2010 9:26:34 AM MST

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: [Astro_IIDC] ExoPlanet Database


Again to clarify;


On 3-Mar-10, at 6:01 AM, Mark Gaffney wrote:



Here`s the Grasshopper:

http://www.ptgrey.com/products/grasshopper/index.asp

I believe Milton was talking about possible support for the USB types here also..You could ask him about what happened with that..



There are currently only two (2) USB cameras offered by PGR.


The Firefly MV and the Chameleon.


The Firefly MV is also offered for FireWire, but it's maximum exposure time is about 0.1 seconds so it make sit pretty useless except for exceedingly bright objects.


The Chameleon is a 1/3" EXVIew HAD CCD and comes in only one flavor. It's a single camera and single model.


I really can not justify having to re-work a lot of code and spend hundreds of man hours of time in testing to get one camera to work. If they had a whole bunch of USB Cameras, I might be interested but not for one model.



Mark.


Later.


Milton Aupperle