<p>I have access to a monochrome USB camera (DMK 23U274, The Imaging Source) and I'd like to record focal plane images from a small telescope with a python script that would control it by setting exposure times and triggering image captures.</p>

<p>Ideally I would like to be able to do this running on a Windows or MacOS laptop or a Raspberry Pi running Raspbian Linux but I don't know if that would require three different sets of special software in the middle (dll's or whatever).</p>

<p>Are there any platform-agnostic ways of doing this via USB? If not, are there Python solutions for amateur astronomers that can run on one or two of these platforms at least?</p>

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<p>The only thing that I have found is this, but it specific to Windows and it seems to be an unfinished Python wrapper with unresolved memory leak issues: </p>

<ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/TheImagingSource/IC-Imaging-Control-Samples/tree/master/Python" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://github.com/TheImagingSource/IC-Imaging-Control-Samples/tree/master/Python</a></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/TheImagingSource/IC-Imaging-Control-Samples/issues/7" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://github.com/TheImagingSource/IC-Imaging-Control-Samples/issues/7</a></li>
</ul>

<p><strong>update:</strong> I've also found the following "Python wrapper for the IC Imaging Control SDK from The Imaging Source (TIS)" which "only works on Windows due to wrapping a DLL" so my hope for a platform-agnostic Python package is waning.</p>

<ul>
<li><a href="https://github.com/morefigs/py-ic-imaging-control" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://github.com/morefigs/py-ic-imaging-control</a></li>
</ul>

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I've also asked a more general question: [Python controllable amateur astrophotography cameras?](https://astronomy.stackexchange.com/q/35690/7982)
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Have you looked at the ASCOM project?
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Python interface for DMK 23U274 USB camera for astrophotography
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# Python interface for DMK 23U274 USB camera for astrophotography

(Asked by: username_0 on 2020-04-02)

I have access to a monochrome USB camera (DMK 23U274, The Imaging Source) and I'd like to record focal plane images from a small telescope with a python script that would control it by setting exposure times and triggering image captures.

Ideally I would like to be able to do this running on a Windows or MacOS laptop or a Raspberry Pi running Raspbian Linux but I don't know if that would require three different sets of special software in the middle (dll's or whatever).

Are there any platform-agnostic ways of doing this via USB? If not, are there Python solutions for amateur astronomers that can run on one or two of these platforms at least?

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The only thing that I have found is this, but it specific to Windows and it seems to be an unfinished Python wrapper with unresolved memory leak issues:

* <https://github.com/TheImagingSource/IC-Imaging-Control-Samples/tree/master/Python>
* <https://github.com/TheImagingSource/IC-Imaging-Control-Samples/issues/7>

**update:** I've also found the following "Python wrapper for the IC Imaging Control SDK from The Imaging Source (TIS)" which "only works on Windows due to wrapping a DLL" so my hope for a platform-agnostic Python package is waning.

* <https://github.com/morefigs/py-ic-imaging-control>

**Tags:** amateur-observing, photography, python

> **Comments:**
> **username_0**: I've also asked a more general question: [Python controllable amateur astrophotography cameras?](https://astronomy.stackexchange.com/q/35690/7982)  
> **username_1**: Have you looked at the ASCOM project?  

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