• Personal background
– Undergrad project on
Grazing Lunar
Occultations
• Requests
– Pluto in 2012
– Doable for students
• Student tech fees in
2013
– Started research in
Feb 2013, submitted proposal in mid-March; approved in early Aug

• www.kuriwaobservatory.com/ADVS.html
• Point Grey Grasshopper Express (GX-FW-28S5M-C)
– Field of view
– Sensitivity
• Cable, Hardware Timer and Camera Controller (HTCC)
• MacBook Pro 2.9GHz 13" w/ 8GB Memory and 750GB harddrive
– Firewire800 which is standard on the MacBook Pro but is an extra feature on other computers, most of which only have
FW400 if they have a FW port at all
– large disc drive for the large video files
– speedy processor to keep up with 10s of frames per second
– portability

• Installed Ubuntu on the MacBook Pro and started iterations of updating the Ubuntu OS to a version that properly controlled the computer, which ended up being 13.04.
• However, neither the camera control software from Pt Grey or ADVR software work under
13.04.
• Could step back down to 12.04, but run risk of laptop overheating.
• Find a PC (desktop w/ FW800)…