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Mini G Series CMOS Cameras
Welcome to the exciting world of astro-imaging. Your new StarShoot
Imaging Camera is capable of capturing professional quality astro-images of many
of your favorite celestial objects, or be used as an autoguider to accurately lock
onto stars and improve the tracking performance of your mount during a long expo-
sure photograph with another camera. Please read this instruction manual before
attempting to use the camera or install the needed software. This manual covers
installation of your camera along with basic functions of acquiring images using
the included software, as well as autoguiding using PHD2. To get the most out of
your camera using 3rd party dedicated astronomy apps coupled with the universal
ASCOM driver for the G Series Camera, please consult the software help files and
manuals included with the individual software packages available on the market.
Some of our favorite programs are mentioned below.
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#51883 Mini 6.3 Color
#51884 Mini 6.3 Mono
#54292 Mini 2mp Mono Autoguider
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Summary of Contents for Orion StarShoot Mini G Series
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Page 2: Software And Hardware Installation
ASCOM camera selection window if the driver is properly installed and the camera connected. Note the same driver for all the Orion StarShoot Blue series cameras is the same, and you may have multiple cameras listed if you also have a larger... - Page 3 Plug the camera into a free USB port in your computer. When you with more advanced processes such as stacking multiple long open Orion Starshoot Image Capture, you’ll be presented with the exposures together to reduce noise, manual dark frame subtrac-...
- Page 4 Some windows are not applicable to astro-imaging, and can be shut off by going into the Options>preferences menu. To take your first image, focus must be achieved. With a CMOS camera, one of the quickest and easiest ways to focus is to point the camera at a bright star, and choose a fast video frame rate with higher gain settings so you can watch the star in real time, and focus until the star becomes a point.
- Page 5 Registax to process the video file. era ASCOM driver from Orion’s website. When in 3rd party camera control programs, the camera gain settings can be controlled in Go to the Options menu, click preferences, and under the the ASCOM setting window for the camera.
- Page 6 ASCOM Platform (located at ascom-standards.org), followed by the StarShoot ASCOM driver (available on the Orion support page for your cam- era). PLEASE make sure to install the ASCOM platform BEFORE you install the ASCOM camera driver, otherwise Windows will return an error because it cannot find the proper ASCOM direc- tories to install this driver.
- Page 7 17 .5mm behind the front C-mount threads, and 10.5mm in front of the back lip of the 1.25" section of the body. To attach the SS Mini to the #52053 Orion 30mm Ultra-Mini Guide Scope, remove the thin black 5mm CS mount ring spacer from the 30mm guidescope, and thread the SS Mini directly to the C-mount threads.
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Page 8: Specifications
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