guiding and capture software

[Ant]

I'm lucky enough to work from home.

The weather has decided in its wisdom to be cloudy most of the weekend, but today (a work day) is a lovely clear blue sky. Rather annoying!!

I was sitting thinking this morning wouldn't it be great if I could setup for some Ha Solar imaging. Get the setup guiding on a sunspot group and every 10 minutes or so run a 1000 frame capture... repeat through out the day.

I did have a piece of software called "Daves something or other" which seemed to do all of that. I tried to run it at the weekend and it has completely stopped working So I thought that I would download it again and he has stopped offering his software. Which is a huge shame as it was very good! 

I am wondering if I could use the feed from the camera twice?

   Firstly: For the guiding - I could use PHD to guide on a feature (assuming that PHD goes down to exposures low enough - i haven't checked yet)

   Secondly: to take the feed and record it using Icap2.3 or ICcapture

Is this possible for windows to use a single video feed for two programs?

If it is I could setup at the start of the day, get everything guiding and then control the capture software from my office via VNC.

Ant

[Ant]

Anyone?

[Helen]

Interesting thought Ant, sorry can't help with an actual answer!  but Photosbykev was involved with the Dave project I think, so I'd get in touch with him first.

Helen

[Ant]

Thanks Helen.

Will do.

Cheers

Ant

[Photosbykev]

Sorry Ant,

I missed the thread, pm sent