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INSTRUCTION MANUAL
Orion
StarShoot
G10 Color
®
™
CMOS Color Imaging Camera
#51452
Customer Support:
www.OrionTelescopes.com/contactus
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Providing Exceptional Consumer Optical Products Since 1975
89 Hangar Way, Watsonville CA 95076 - USA
Copyright © 2018 Orion Telescopes & Binoculars
All Rights Reserved. No part of this product instruction or any of its contents may be reproduced, copied, modified or adapted,
without the prior written consent of Orion Telescopes & Binoculars.
IN 628 08/18
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Page 1: Instruction Manual
Copyright © 2018 Orion Telescopes & Binoculars All Rights Reserved. No part of this product instruction or any of its contents may be reproduced, copied, modified or adapted, without the prior written consent of Orion Telescopes & Binoculars. IN 628 08/18... - Page 2 Welcome to the exciting world of astro-imaging. Your new Starshoot™ G10 CMOS Color Imaging Camera is capable of captur- ing professional quality astro-images of your favorite celestial objects. You can showcase spectacular images on your computer, share them on the internet, or print them. The camera’s large 10+ mega-pixel color array provides very high resolution images which are great for publishing in large prints.
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Page 3: Getting Started
The software and driver must first be downloaded from the of resolution. Orion website before plugging in the camera. Please go to: www.telescope.com/G10 to download all the relevant software. Downloadable files include: •... -
Page 4: Hardware Setup
Plug the camera into the USB 3 port, and into AC power. When Focusing the camera for the first time can be tricky, since the you open Orion Starshoot Image Capture, you’ll be presented camera may focus at a completely different place from where with the main preview window on the right, and the control an eyepiece focuses. - Page 5 Vega, provided it’s in the field of view, and relatively close If you wish to fine tune the focus further, a Bahtinov mask to focus. If you see nothing, but are sure the star is in is an ideal method of focusing with Orion StarShoot...
- Page 6 Pick an object like the Ring Nebula (M57), Dumbbell (M27), or Orion Nebula (M42) since they are all very bright and easy to see in short exposures to make sure the framing is correct.
- Page 7 combination is a matter of trial and error, and will vary images, especially when imaging something faint that hides in depending on the telescope focal ratio and sky conditions. the background noise. The bigger the number of images, the more you can push the processing and pull out the detail. Even If you want to “screen stretch”...
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Page 8: Conversion Gain
tracted and a stack of thirty 120 second light frames, 9 dark condense on the chip. You’ll notice this in the image as a circu- frames, processed in DeepSkyStacker and Photoshop. lar pattern that grows in the image, and a major loss of detail. If the chip dews over, raise the target temperature and give 5. -
Page 9: Image Processing
G10 ASCOM Ensure that the telescope is focused and ready for astro- driver from Orion’s website. When in 3rd party camera con- imaging. trol programs, the G10 gain settings can be controlled in the Point the telescope at a uniform and featureless light ASCOM setting window for the camera. -
Page 10: Specifications
Desiccant plug Specifications The camera has been baked in an industrial oven in order to Sensor: Sony IMX 294 color CMOS, purge the CMOS chip chamber of as much moisture as pos- 4/3 format sible. This prevents dew from forming as the TEC lowers the Resolution: Up to 4128x2808 temperature of the chip. -
Page 12: One-Year Limited Warranty
Corporate Offices: 89 Hangar Way, Watsonville CA 95076 - USA. Customer Support: www.OrionTelescopes.com/contactus Copyright © 2018 Orion Telescopes & Binoculars. All Rights Reserved. No part of this product instruction or any of its contents may be repro- duced, copied, modified or adapted, without the prior written consent of Orion Telescopes & Binoculars.