Apogee

mcmaster notes

Apogee Alta U2 from eBay. MSRP is about $6k, was $800 which was the best I could find for a cooled CCD with USB

2018-05-22

• Ubuntu 16 on main laptop
• [1]
• What was the relationship between libapogee and indi?
  • IIRC libapogee got discontinued
  • However, they didn't move the examples over
  • Should reach out to the devs
• Using indi
  • [2]
  • 58b26c584049e1b9ecd55aa5f4a225677a417898
• Cooled CCD (Alta U2) frontside optical emissions imaging test: unable to see any activity despite 1 hour exposure + histogram equalization (raw image appears black)
  • Used minipro
  • [3]
  • I think

Some commands I ran mcmaster@phantom:~/doc/sw/libapogee/libapogee-3.0.3234$ ./configure --enable-python-wrapper




1. sudo apt-get install -y libcurl4-openssl-dev libboost-regex1.58.0 libboost-regex-dev libboost-regex1.58-dev python-dev swig cdbs libcfitsio-dev libnova-dev libusb-1.0-0-dev libjpeg-dev libusb-dev libtiff5-dev libftdi-dev fxload libkrb5-dev libcurl4-gnutls-dev libraw-dev libgphoto2-dev libgsl0-dev dkms libboost-regex-dev libgps-dev libdc1394-22-dev
2. hmm conflicts

sudo apt-get install -y libboost-regex1.58.0 libboost-regex-dev libboost-regex1.58-dev python-dev swig cdbs libcfitsio-dev libnova-dev libusb-1.0-0-dev libjpeg-dev libusb-dev libtiff5-dev libftdi-dev fxload libkrb5-dev libraw-dev libgphoto2-dev libgsl0-dev dkms libboost-regex-dev libgps-dev libdc1394-22-dev sudo apt-get install -y libcurl4-openssl-dev

sudo apt-get install -y indi-apogee indi-sbig kstars kstars-data kstars-data-extra-tycho2 libapogee-dev libapogee2


mcmaster@phantom:~/doc/sw/libapogee/libapogee-3.0.3234/examples$ LD_LIBRARY_PATHA=/home/mcmaster/doc/ext/indi/3rdparty/libapogee ./SimpleExposure && python decode.py Apogee Alta Simple Exposoure Sample Connected to Alta camera Cam Info: model = AltaU-2 max # imaging rows = 1024 max # imaging cols = 1536 Starting a 0.03 sec light exposure Retrieving image data from camera Writing image to file Closing connection to camera mv simpleExposure.{bin,png} ref

2018-08-26

• Did some tests a while back on main laptop
• Setting up to run on uvforge laptop

2018-08-27

sudo apt-get install -y libboost-regex1.58.0 libboost-regex-dev libboost-regex1.58-dev python-dev swig cdbs libcfitsio-dev libnova-dev libusb-1.0-0-dev libjpeg-dev libusb-dev libtiff5-dev libftdi-dev fxload libkrb5-dev libraw-dev libgphoto2-dev libgsl0-dev dkms libboost-regex-dev libgps-dev libdc1394-22-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev cmake git clone [4] pushd indi/3rdparty/libapogee mkdir build cd build cmake .. make -j$(nproc) popd tar -xf libapogee-3.0.3234.tar cd libapogee-3.0.3234/examples LD_LIBRARY_PATHA=/home/mcmaster/doc/ext/indi/3rdparty/libapogee ./SimpleExposure && python decode.py


maybe just try using lindi directly sudo apt-get install libnova-dev libcfitsio-dev libusb-1.0-0-dev zlib1g-dev libgsl-dev build-essential cmake git libjpeg-dev libcurl4-gnutls-dev sudo apt-get install libftdi-dev libgps-dev libraw-dev libgphoto2-dev libboost-dev libboost-regex-dev librtlsdr-dev libftdi1-dev libfftw3-dev

libapogee

What I used to get my early results. Works, but not reliably (sometimes image shows large splotch bands, almost like integration didn't start/stop correctly)

wget [5] tar -xf libapogee-3.0.3234.tgz cd libapogee-3.0.3234 sed -i s/-lboost_regex-mt/-lboost_regex/ apogee/Makefile* ./configure make -j$(nproc)

micromanager

2018-08-28

Followed instructions in Apogee official pdf

Got it to pickup, heard fan speed change

C_\Program Files\Micro-Manager-1.4\MMConfig_apogee.cfg

Got this working pretty quickly. Seems to work more reliably than the Apogee demo app

References

[6]

• setupApogeeSoftware.exe

[7]

• apgSwInstall-x86.zip

• mcmaster *

Units:

• U2: original
• U32: qty 2, have lens