Hi, are there any practical impediments to writing a driver for a different frame-grabber to be used with MetRec? I find it ridiculous we have to hunt for a 10...
I just saw a matrox II on ebay.co.uk and made an offer just to discover that our fair group moderator beat me to it a few hours later and out bid me and bought...
Hi Alin, I'm quite embarassed about your mail, but I still did not moderate it. I tell you something: Over the last 7 or 8 years I have purchased roughly 50 ...
Hi, I'm fairly new to this group and have just abotu assembled a computer, graphics card, and camrea for use in central NM, USA. What drivers do I need to have...
Mark, ... you need to install the Matrox Meteor II driver that comes with MetRec (driver.zip) unter Win98 once. Thereafter, the grabber will be found no matter...
Hi. I have a problem with Metrec and Matrox Meteor II under Win98. I instaled drivers for a card, as is written in Readme file. But, if try to take a test...
Hi Mitja, ... did you try to run grab from a DOS box in Win98? That won't work. You either need to restart Win98 in DOS mode, or (even easier) prevent Win98 ...
I can't answer your question, but you might want to avoid trying to run Metrec inside Win98 completely. What I do is run it on machines with XP installed (but...
Dear List, I try to select a camera for my system in Hungary. I got a bit confused about camera types: Many users refer to the Supercircuits PC164C camera as...
Hi Antal- The Supercircuits PC164C is a KPC-350BH. The PC164C-EX2 is a KPC-650BH. I've tried both, and found the lower resolution model has slightly better ...
Antal, to my knowledge, only Carl Hergenrother is using the PC164C camera in the IMO Network, and this camera seems to be less sensitive that the Mintron and...
Folks, the Computar lenses (3.8mm, 6mm, 8mm) with f/0.8 have always been my first choice for meteor cameras. I'm still convinced there is hardly a better lens,...
Hi all. Metrec works almost perfect, but I have a problem with the autorestart. At the end of the night (at 05:59:59 LT) Metrec freezes and doesn't respond to...
Hi Mitja, ... that is indeed a strange behaviour that I cannot explain easily. What recognition end time does MetRec compute: I assume 6:00? Or is the camera ...
PS: Are you observing in the same direction? There is significant difference in the number of meteors depending where you are watching. Just to give you an ...
Hi. ... camera ... 16:00. MetRec ... times are ... I almost never wait until countdown ends (it ends around 3.30LT) and start Metrec manually. Camera is turned...
Hi Mitja ... that could be the reason: MetRec tries to end the observation after 6 UT, because at that time the Sun reaches -8 deg altitude, but you switch off...
... and ... 18.00LT and ... 6 UT, ... switch off the ... hang in a loop ... had a similar ... MetRec has ... This morning I turned off a camera 30 minutes...
Hi Sirko and all, I have a question related to this topic. Metrec ends the observation when the Sun reaches -8 deg altitude (a bit before civil twilight). I ...
Hi Paco, ... that can be configured, but currently only a range between 0 and -18 is allowed. To allow daylight operation, this feature would need to be...
Just for reference: with allsky coverage, I record about 400 meteors per year brighter than mag -4. Adjusted for cloud cover, this works out to about 500 per...
Hi Chris, ... ... but you won't record a -4 mag fireball at daytime. How many meteors brighther than, say, -10 do you record per year? Best, Sirko -- ...
It's hard to say with high accuracy, given that the camera saturates for bright events, and I don't compensate for extinction. I'd estimate I get 3-5 events of...
Thank you Sirko, Chris! I have tried it switching on/off with the sun around at 2º of altitude. I recorded some Perseids during civil twilight and even a...
Hi Paco- I've never recorded a daytime meteor, but that may be because I haven't tried! Running Metrec in the day with an allsky camera does tend to generate ...
Folks, at the 2008 IMC, Detlef Koschny presented the Windows port of MetRec, which was done by ESA programmer Hans Smit. In the last few days, I started to...
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