21 cm Detector Day 6

We are currently waiting for the last few pieces to complete the detector. In the afternoon, we began to work on the webcam to watch the viper telescope. We were trying to fix the brightness on the camera. When we first plugged in the camera, the brightness was proper for anything inside of the room. We then tried to move the camera closer to the window and got a white screen. We tried plugging in the camera to a Windows computer and the program would allow us to change the setting of brightness, contrast, tint, ect. When we brought the camera back, we were able to get the following image when positioning the camera to outside the window.

This is the image that we were able to take outside the window. The different color is the grass. 

We tried to readjust the brightness some more but kept running into the same problem. The camera has an auto-adjust feature for brightness and seems to have difficultly going back to normal brightness.

This is a picture from the camera point outside. The white glare is outside.

This is a picture of the room after trying to take a picture outside.

Tomorrow we are going to try and find a way to take the picture outside. We think that the reflection from the glass may be causing problems with the built in auto-adjust feature. We also need to find out why we can no longer adjust the code we have to auto take the picture. We also hope to have the last few pieces for the detector so we hope that we can complete it.