Software
Just some Windows 9x software I've written to deal with Quickcam Grayscale images. I have a Color camera now. When I get time, I'll enable and debug the color code in DarkGen and QCV2.
Coming in the next few months is a program to control the LX-200. Everyone has one, right? With how many of them do you have to get up and go to the scope to push the enter key when you sync to an object? That makes it pretty much worthless. The user interface is done, the serial code is done, and it is just a matter of hooking the two together. There are hooks in it to take commands from other programs to pass commands along, or execute macros (under software control - not user macros). This would allow QCV2 to tell the scope to move east 30 arc minutes between groups of frames. It will not need to reside on the same machine as QCV2, but could.
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Any and all of the code I make available on this page is free to any who wish to use it. It will be supported as bug reports are piled up, and reasonable (or overwhelming) requests for enhancements will be considered.
A Borland C++ v5 project file and all source and headers for the qcam-lib code from the linux group will be available soon. This is the code used by QCV2 to access the camera.
QCV2 Camera control program.
DarkGen Dark subtraction and stacking program.
I think this is the only long exposure frame I managed to get from the QC Color camera. I used the driver from QCV2, and built a command line utility to capture frames. It ran blind, in that there was no way to see what you were shooting until you captured the frame. You can see that it smeared vertically. The bottom half of the image is actually inside a dark room. I never did modify QCV2 to handle this camera, because the same month I bought a Genesis camera and shelved the QC, except for planetary images.