Hi,
In France we intend to purchase Basler cameras to record stellar occultations by asteroids. To improve time stanping accy we would like to use sharpcap to drive the camera with using a timebox which a device able to deliver the trig in the camera. Does Sharpcap is able to deliver then the digital video file with the time stamping comming from the Timebox ?
Thanks for your answer
Thierry
Basler Camera and Trig in
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Re: Basler Camera and Trig in
Hi Thierry,
SharpCap doesn't have the functionality to set up hardware triggering for Basler cameras (SharpCap does use software triggering for long exposures, but not hardware). I don't think there is a way to work around this - I just tried opening the Basler camera I have in both SharpCap *and* Pylon viewer at the same time, in the hope that I could use Pylon viewer to adjust settings that SharpCap does not show, but you get an error trying to open the camera a second time.
How about the QHY174GPS camera, which has GPS based timing built into the camera and is fully suported by SharpCap?
cheers,
Robin
SharpCap doesn't have the functionality to set up hardware triggering for Basler cameras (SharpCap does use software triggering for long exposures, but not hardware). I don't think there is a way to work around this - I just tried opening the Basler camera I have in both SharpCap *and* Pylon viewer at the same time, in the hope that I could use Pylon viewer to adjust settings that SharpCap does not show, but you get an error trying to open the camera a second time.
How about the QHY174GPS camera, which has GPS based timing built into the camera and is fully suported by SharpCap?
cheers,
Robin