Author Archives: james

QHY5 support in oacapture

Posted on August 13, 2014 by james

Support for the QHY cameras is somewhat tricky.  There are all sorts of different versions of firmware floating about, not to mention various different versions of the open source interface library.  Even more awkwardly, whilst many other manufacturers have perhaps … Continue reading →

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Time for a catch-up

Posted on August 13, 2014 by james

Quite how half a year has passed since I last wrote anything is beyond me.  Work, life, family and all that jazz seem to have taken over from the little box in the corner of my office. Time to start … Continue reading →

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Amazon goes Subprime

Posted on February 26, 2014 by james

Amazon has just announced that it is bundling it’s streaming media service with the existing “Prime” membership and putting the price up from £49 to £79. I don’t know what the business motivation is for such a change, but it … Continue reading →

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First Light for Linux imaging application

Posted on November 27, 2013 by james

It’s been a stupendous time coming thanks to the grim weather we’ve had over the last three months, but then if the weather hadn’t been grim I might not have got so far 😀 However, two nights ago I went … Continue reading →

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Linux support for Imaging Source USB CCD astronomy cameras

Posted on November 13, 2013 by james

I’ve been on something of a mystery tour over the last few days trying to work out exactly what is required to get the Imaging Source USB CCD astronomy cameras working on Linux. What information I’ve been able to find … Continue reading →

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Dehydrated to the core

Posted on October 20, 2013 by james

It’s been a busy weekend fruit-wise. Yesterday the children and I collected some of our ripe dessert apples and cored, peeled and sliced them. It took about forty apples to fill our dehydrator which I left on overnight. The result … Continue reading →

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Home made pasta sauce base

Posted on October 20, 2013 by james

The days are getting shorter and the remaining tomatoes in the polytunnel don’t look like they’re getting that much riper, so today we picked about two thirds of the ripest, which actually turned out to be far more tomatoes than … Continue reading →

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Fruits of my labour

Posted on October 19, 2013 by james

A few days ago the children and I picked a decent basketful of crab apples from one of our trees. I reckon there must have been perhaps 3kg or so. A real pleasure as the last couple of years have … Continue reading →

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Colour histogram and reticle for Linux capture app

Posted on October 18, 2013 by james

Progress, progress… Here’s my reticle and the colour version of the histogram. I may add some options for changing the style of the reticle and splitting the histogram into three, but those are for later. I also killed a few … Continue reading →

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Mono histogram for capture application

Posted on October 17, 2013 by james

I have the histogram working for mono cameras now. Colour is more work, but that will follow shortly. It doesn’t look too exciting mind.

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