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Title: Two simultaneous instances of Capture ? Command line execution ?
Post by: Hibou on August 28, 2015, 05:39:09 pm

Hi. I use Atik cameras for scientific imaging, and miss having email contact with Jonathan, the former Atik programmer, and Chris, the former responsible for OEM and Scientific imaging.

For one application I need to run two cameras simultaneously, capture both ~5 minute exposures, and pass them to my ImageJ script to stitch them together. I looked at several possibilities:
1) Launching Artemis Capture from  a Windows Command Prompt. But I would need to feed it command line arguments to launch exposures and save the resulting FITS file. Is that possible ?
2) Using the Artemis ImageJ plugin to connect to a camera and capture an image file. Again, I can't see how to script that.
3) Writing a Visual Basic script to capture images using ASCOM with an old FITS.dll to enter parameter parameters, expose, and write out the FITS file. http://neutronoptics.com/ascom.html (http://neutronoptics.com/ascom.html) Unfortunately that has been broken with Windows 8/10.

I would be grateful if anyone could suggest how I might script capture from Artemis cameras, especially two simultaneous captures.

Title: Re: Two simultaneous instances of Capture ? Command line execution ?
Post by: Jo on September 03, 2015, 03:44:31 pm

I think it's probably worth dropping an email to contact@atik-cameras.com with this and we can then put you in touch with someone who can help that way.

Jo

Title: Re: Two simultaneous instances of Capture ? Command line execution ?
Post by: Hibou on September 03, 2015, 05:43:11 pm

Thanks Jo. Indeed I'll email Chris sometime when he is not so busy finishing the Infinity software.