Help needed to identify a CCD camera and where to find WIN11 drivers.

[uk_friendly_fire]

I've been given a CCD 1.25" camera. There are no outward markings so I unscrewed the circular face of it and read QHYCCD 091012 printed on the circuit board.

This lead me to the QHY website but I cannot find an image of it that matches. 

The LED on the back glows red when connected to usb so I think there is a good chance its working.

Does anyone know what CCD model it is and where I can find drivers to test it on WIN11?

[happy-kat]

Does w11 not pick the camera up automatically?

[Xilman]

9 minutes ago, uk_friendly_fire said:

I've been given a CCD 1.25" camera. There are no outward markings so I unscrewed the circular face of it and read QHYCCD 091012 printed on the circuit board.

This lead me to the QHY website but I cannot find an image of it that matches. 

The LED on the back glows red when connected to usb so I think there is a good chance its working.

Does anyone know what CCD model it is and where I can find drivers to test it on WIN11?

Can you post some pictures, please, especially of the end with the connector. That may reduce the size of the search necessary.

Another approach may be to perform some image searches on the likes of Google.

The amount of information given so far hasn't been sufficient to let me find plausible candidates.

[uk_friendly_fire]

Hope this helps

[fozzybear]

maybe a side view as well as no info on the end plate

 

[uk_friendly_fire]

[uk_friendly_fire]

Happy-kat - Unfortunately no the camera isnt identified by WIN11 - I tried it thinking it might appear in Device manager, but no luck.

[carastro]

Looks a bit like the QHY5 guide camera. 
 

l have a QHY5 which l have only ever used for guiding. 
 

 

Edited October 12, 2023 by carastro

[happy-kat]

On QHY website there's a discontinued cameras pdf available to download I found 

[malc-c]

Late to the party... but yes that's a QHY5 - Driver and application attached

QHY5.zip

[carastro]

I took some photos of my QHY5.  It is in the back of my finderscope but did come with a 1.25” nosepiece.  
 

Yours seems to be slightly wider one end but could be the angle the photo was taken at.  
 

The fact that there is a guide port on yours does suggest it can be used for guiding. 
 

Mr Qhy was always very helpful l recall. 

l have had this camera for around 12 years, it was superseded by the QHY5ii and doubtless some others after that.  My drivers were supplied on a disc. 
 

Edited October 12, 2023 by carastro

[carastro]

Ah, l see Malc has beaten me to it while l was faffing around. 

[uk_friendly_fire]

That's it a QHY5-m recognised by WIN11 and working in the app sent by Malc-c! Thank you all so much for your expert help.

[carastro]

I think it will also take some sort of basic images, I never tried it, but there was some software that came with the camera, which I only tried out on live view and can't remember whether it was planetary or otherwise.    I think it ws called QGvideo or something, and most likely that means planetary only.

Carole 

[carastro]

I have to say it has been a really great guide camera. 

[uk_friendly_fire]

Thanks I'm looking forward to using it with the RPi4b I built with Stellarmate OS installed.

That's probably a subject of a following post.

Regards

[malc-c]

Not 100% sure about compatibility with modern versions of software, but back in the day there was an issue with compatibility with SharpCap, which would only work with a WDM (?? or something like that) driver, which whilst it gave a picture, a lot of the functionality found in the QVideo application for camera control missing.  This may now have been redressed, but given the age of the camera it might be unsupported by some modern applications.  

2 hours ago, carastro said:

I have to say it has been a really great guide camera. 

I second that... works great with PHD2 through both an ST80 guidescope or a 9 x 50 finder converted.