A Design and Development of Multi-Purpose CCD Camera System with Thermoelectric Cooling: Software

• Main Authors: S. H. Oh, Y. W. Kang, Y. I. Byun
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Korean Space Science Society (KSSS) 2007-12-01
• Series: Journal of Astronomy and Space Sciences
• Subjects: CCD; CCD camera; CCD control software; multi-purpose; Linux
• Online Access: http://ocean.kisti.re.kr/downfile/volume/kosss/OJOOBS/2007/v24n4/OJOOBS_2007_v24n4_367.pdf

We present a software which we developed for the multi-purpose CCD camera. This software can be used on the all 3 types of CCD - KAF-0401E (768×512), KAF-1602E (15367times;1024), KAF-3200E (2184×1472) made in KODAK Co.. For the efficient CCD camera control, the software is operated with two independent processes of the CCD control program and the temperature/shutter operation program. This software is designed to fully automatic operation as well as manually operation under LINUX system, and is controled by LINUX user signal procedure. We plan to use this software for all sky survey system and also night sky monitoring and sky observation. As our results, the read-out time of each CCD are about 15sec, 64sec, 134sec for KAF-0401E, KAF-1602E, KAF-3200E., because these time are limited by the data transmission speed of parallel port. For larger format CCD, the data transmission is required more high speed. we are considering this control software to one using USB port for high speed data transmission.