Hi Arun, It seems to me that your project is intriguing, and it might be fun to improve a telescope's useful resolution with an algorithm like lucky imaging.
I do not have an answer to your reasonable question, but it occurred to me that the IRC channel ##astronomy on freenode might interest you. Good luck, ~K On 01/10/12 18:07, Arun Venkataswamy wrote: > Hi, > > I have an ARM based Linux SBC (Chumby hacker board, > http://www.sparkfun.com/products/10106). > > For a personal project related to astronomy-imaging, I need to connect a > specific webcam (Philips SPC900) to it. The webcam will be placed inside a > telescope. The reason for choosing this out of production webcam (paying a > premium for it in ebay) is because it is one of the very few cameras that > support manual exposure time setting. We need long exposure for imaging > stars. The camera has a good linux driver (pwc.ko) for this. The problem is > that the SBC does not have a pre compiled binary for this. It would be > practically impossible for me to compile this driver from source because of > the dependencies and requirement of the kernel source code and all. > > Any suggestion and help would be great! > > It is difficult to use a regular x86 based PC for this because the entire > contraption is going to be placed on a remote location 80 kms from Chennai > in a farm with only a watchman. This is because I require dark skies. Power > consumption and reliability is of high priority. An Atom based PC booting > out of a pen drive will be my last option, though the simplest. > > Regards, > Arun > > > -- > > Arun Venkataswamy > > "கற்றது கைமண் அளவு, கல்லாதது உலகளவு" - ஔவையார் > Known is a drop, Unknown is an ocean > > A mash up I made from NASA's APOD website... > Want to see some wonders of our universe? > http://apodweekly.com and a chrome app > here<https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mfkbdbbekhjhpheecjldjbleaifedneh> > . > _______________________________________________ > ILUGC Mailing List: > http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
