Apogee CCD

Installation

INDI Apogee driver supports all lines of Apogee CCDs. The driver is available for download as a 3rd party driver from INDI's download page. Under Ubuntu, you can install it via:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:mutlaqja/ppa

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install indi-apogee

Features

The Apogee driver should support all features of the Alta and Aspen cameras including

USB or Ethernet connection
Temperature setpoint
Hardware binning
Frame sub-selection
Shutter capture mode; Dark, Bias, Light
Fan speed

Configuration

In order to use your Apogee camera in INDI the first step is to configure the CCD setting in a new profile or editing and existing one. Here is a new profile where we are selecting our CCD as an Apogee CCD.

config

Operation

After configuring your profile to use an Apogee camera, connecting to INDI will create new tabs for your camera that contain your camera's detailed specifics. In this case I have connected an Apogee Alta 8300 which uses a Kodak KAF-8300 chip via USB.

Main Control

Options

The Options tab contains various settings for simulation, default file locations, upload behavior and debugging. options

Image Settings

The Image Settings tab contains default settings for binning, sub framing, compression and frame type. Frame type controls the shutter such that you can take dark and bias frames with the shutter closed. All these options are available in the Ekos CCD application, you could change them here to establish different start up defaults. imagesettings

Image Info

The Image Info tab contains the read only details of the underlying CCD's dimensions, pixel size and bit depth.

Issues

There are no known bugs for this driver. If you found a bug, please report it at INDI's bug tracking system at SourceForge. (You can log in with a variety of existing accounts, including Google, Yahoo and OpenID.)

Rating

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Listing Details

Driver Name

Apogee CCD

Driver Executable

indi_apogee_ccd

Family

CCD

Manufacturer

Apogee

Platforms

Linux

Author

Jasem Mutlaq

Version

1.0

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Reviews (1)

by xthestreams

November 8, 2020

Works great - ensure firmware updated to V33 for Alta

The driver works great, however please note that it is likely to crash/fail to initialise for firmware under V33 (my experience was that it will fail to recognise the camera with V23 firmware).

Unclear if RBI pre-flashing is supported in the code, I could not see how to activate it with my U16M.

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