#PHILIPS WEBCAM ASTRONOMY MANUAL#
Check technical specifications in the user manual for more details. The PCVC740K ToUcam PRO has a 1 lux illumination sensitivity which makes it a good camera for bright planets, Moon and Sun. Image taken a day after the full moon using Philippine Astronomical Society ‘s Celestron nexstar 8se and Philips Toucam. The Philips PCVC740K ToUcam PRO PC video camera is a small 640x480 color camera designed to used with a computer with an USB interface.
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Within the mare are craters Piccard (left) and Pierre (right). When attempting to use it in EKOS the message 'driver crashed' appears.
#PHILIPS WEBCAM ASTRONOMY DRIVER#
Jupiter’s belts, zones and Great Red Spot, as seen by the Hubble Space Telescope, 27 June 2019 HandyAvi 2.0 works very well with the ToUcam as well as nearly all other popular webcams such as the Logitech Quickcam Pro 4000 and the Philips SPC 900NC camera which has gained popularity among amateur astronomers. Mare Crisium is a flat basin that can be easily seen on the Moon’s Edge. I have just re-started doing some astronomy and after updating the RPi4 with the Astroberry software to 2.0.3, the driver for the Philips Webcam (indyv4l2ccd) I use for autoguiding has stopped working.