R. A. Greiner wrote:

>
> Cary Chleborad wrote:
>
>> Talk to finger lakes CCD. www.fli-cam.com
>>
>> -Cary
>>
>> P.S. USB has a practical distance limit of 10 feet, where ethernet is
>> 300 or so. I keep hammering on the CCD folks to go ethernet, but the
>> only feedback I've gotten it that everyone else wants USB.
>>
>
>
> I agree with you totally. USB is not the panacea that some think. It
> is limited in cable length unless you use various extenders and
> converters.
>
> It is sad that half way measures are the norm in the astronomy
> industry.
>
> Doc G

I have done so thinking about the approach to making a CCD camera an
Ethernet device. The key is that it will be necessary to be able to
store a full image in the device itself. This is not at all out of the
question for typical micros but does mean a special memory since the
directly addressable memory space is too small in most cases. I may try
to build such a mod for an st-8 this summer.

--
John Oliver

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