This would allow you to obtain a FITS files in your directory with the data acquired by the camera.
This feature is available since the 1.7 version of the code. In this mode, the ACS uses a class that simulates the communication with the camera to create the image files. If you do not have this camera, the ACS will run in the simulated mode.
ANDOR SOLIS SAVE AS SOFTWARE
The first one is the Software Development Kit (SDK) developed by Andor Technology to control the CCDs. There are some packages that need to be installed before running the software. These instructions will get you a copy of the project up and running on your local machine for development and testing purposes.
However, the ACS is being developed only to control the cameras and its final version will not have a graphical interface. Figure below presents an image of the Graphical Engineering Interface (GEI) developed to control the ACS for engineering purposes.
ANDOR SOLIS SAVE AS CODE
This README presents a step-by-step tutorial to download the latest version of the code and run a simple test for image acquisition. Thus, this system will allow the acquisition of synchronized image cubes for the four channels, a feature that is not available on the control software delivered by the manufacturer, the Andor Solis. It is also possible to concatenate cubes with 170 images with a delay of 950 ms between cubes. For each channel it is possible to acquire cubes with up to 170 full-frame images (1024 x x1024 pixels) with a delay of approximately 1.7 ms between exposures.
ANDOR SOLIS SAVE AS GENERATOR
The synchronization will be made by a digital pulse generator developed by the Highlands Technology with a resolution of 10 ps between pulses.
This software will allow simultaneous and synchronized acquisition for the four SPARC4 channels. The ACS is in version 1.7 and its development is being done through the graphical programming language Labview with the Software Development Kit (SDK) package, made availabel by Andor, to comunicate with the cameras. These cameras also have frame transfer and electron-multiplying capabilities, allowing acquisition rates (AR) of up to 26 fps full-frame (1024 x 1024 pixels) even on faint astronomical objects, which requires high sensitivity for short exposure times.įor the control of the SPARC4 cameras, it is being developed the SPARC4 acquisition control system (ACS). These devices have an optical window and coating optimized for the spectral range in which they were designed to operate. For the acquisition in each band (channel), there is a dedicated iXon Ultra EMCCD, produced by Andor Technology.
SPARC4 will be installed on the 1.6 m Perkin-Elmer telescope at Observatório Pico dos Dias (OPD), Brazil, and it will allow image acquisition in the four Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) photometric bands: g, r, i and z. The Astrophysics Division of the Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Espaciais (INPE) in collaboration with the Laboratório Nacional de Astrofísica (LNA) is developing a new astronomical instrument, the Simultaneous Polarimeter and Rapid Camera in Four Bands ( SPARC4). SPARC4 Acquisition Control System Introduction