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Hi Bill et. al.,

I finally updated my results for 2011, the details of which can be seen on my blog at [1]. I'm still only running the one camera, however I did catch more meteors in 2011 than 201 ...

I had seen this camera in my original searches and it looks very nicely built. However I was under the impression that an all sky camera would detect less meteors than a smaller FOV camera.

I am no ...

Hi Glen,

I am using the Canopus ADVC55 and all it does is convert the analogue video signal to a digital one. The .ufi settings file is for UFO Capture which is downstream of the A/D conversion. As ...

Hi Taka,

I have noticed that their web site is down as well. For a while they had a "under construction" message, but now it has reverted to a directory listing. Either they are very unprofessional ...

Yes, one day I will get a few more camera's and lenses to play with and I can try what works best. Due to time and geographic constraints, I had to buy an off the shelf system, at which time I could o ...

I'm not sure what those measurements mean lol. The picture seems clear with no vignetting, so the CCD sensor must be entirely covered by the lens FOV.

Are other systems normally matched in this me ...

Thank you for the confirmation, I had thought HDD access would be an issue, but I hadn't considered the CPU load, so it was worth asking Smile

I have a question on UFOCapture configuration. I have not ...

OK - because UFOCapture is supposed to be turning off my PC and then the UPS should turn off the power. If I have the timing slightly out then perhaps there is a problem there. I have been analyzing m ...

Hi SonotaCo,

That's OK, I can live without FTP.

I have another question. I noticed that sometimes there is what looks like the temporary video file left in the capture directory of 0 Bytes.

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Hi SonotaCo,

I have been trying to configure the FTP feature but have been unsuccessful. UFOCapture keeps giving a message of "The password was not allowed". I have checked and re-checked and even ...

Hi SonotaCo,

It seems that there is agreement, at least in principle, to make VMO compatible with UFO which is great news. I look forward to it. In the meantime I will just collate my results in a ...

Hi Stephane,

Sounds fair enough - one day I hope to add more cameras, once I have everything running smoothly with 1 camera that is. Smile

Speaking of which, I noticed that VMO does not accept any ...

Hi Stephane,

Yes I agree with your assessment of the auto close iris, I thought this was dangerous and I made sure to avoid the Sun and Moon completely.

You must have changed the zoom or somethi ...

Hi Stephane,

I did notice noise in my system as well, particularly moving faint parallel lines. Can't remember if they were vertical or horizontal. It seemed like interference, but looking around o ...

Hi Stephane,

Sounds like the same specs as mine, which is what we would expect.

Which switches were wrongly set? What have you got them set to now? I just left mine on default, basically due to ...