Orion 52018 StarShoot Solar System Instruction Manual

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Orion

StarShoot

Solar System

™

Color Imaging Camera III

#52018

Providing Exceptional Consumer Optical Products Since 1975

Customer Support (800) 676-1343

E-mail: support@telescope.com

Corporate Offices (831) 763-7000

89 Hangar Way, Watsonville, CA 95076

IN 349 Rev. C 06/10

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Page 1 ™ Color Imaging Camera III #52018 Providing Exceptional Consumer Optical Products Since 1975 Customer Support (800) 676-1343 E-mail: support@telescope.com Corporate Offices (831) 763-7000 89 Hangar Way, Watsonville, CA 95076 © 2008-2010 Orion Telescopes & Binoculars IN 349 Rev. C 06/10...
Page 2: Parts List
Welcome to a new world of adventure. Your new StarShoot Figure 1. To use the SSSSI-III, a telescope, mount, and computer are Solar System Color Imaging Camera III (SSSSI-III) is capa- required. ble of capturing detailed, full-color images of astronomical objects in our solar system.
Page 3: Software And Driver Installation
CD-ROM drive, and the Launcher will appear (Figure 3). This allows torial mount. Planetary imaging requires combining many individual images, you to install the MaxIm DL Essentials software, and the Orion StarShoot Solar and having an equatorial mount will prevent the planet from drifting out of the System Imager camera driver.
Page 4: Getting Started During Daylight
Figure 5. Window will only show light and dark before the camera is coupled to your The Live Video Window and Camera Control telescope. Window both automatically 4. When the camera is connected to the computer for the first time, the Live appear when the SSSSI-II is Video Window (and subsequent images captured with the camera) will dis- connected to the computer...
Page 5: Camera Controls
Figure 6. seeing conditions, wind, or a shaky mount, however, increasing the Frames The settings in to more than 1 will generally decrease image quality. You can take many the Screen Stretch Window greatly determine how an individual frames and add them together (“stacking” or “combining”) later, image will appear on your this will be discussed in detail in the “Astronomical Imaging”...
Page 6 Figure 7. A histogram is a visual representation of the range and level of brightness in an image. Focus lock Parfocal ring thumbscrew Brightness range Note: The Screen Stretch Window does not work for the Live Video Window, only for open images captured by the camera. In the Screen Stretch Window, you will notice a graph.
Page 7: Astronomical Imaging
Figure 9. To properly position the parfocal ring on the eyepiece barrel, first insert the The Moon’s surface detail looks camera into the telescope’s focuser drawtube. Set MaxIm DL Essentials so the best along the terminator. the camera displays on the computer’s screen in Live Video mode. Focus the camera as precisely as possible by visual inspection of the image on your computer screen.
Page 8 Figure 10. image. If you reject the first image or otherwise want to use another image as The Combine Images window allows the reference, click the Set As Reference button when the desired reference “stacking” of individual images image is actively displayed. If the image currently chosen as the reference is into one high-quality resultant rejected from the stack, and another reference image is not selected, you will image.
Page 9 Figure 11. Screen Stretch Window to Planet, and use Save under the File menu to The Open or Convert AVI File window breaks save your image. You can now perform any wanted imaging processing. video into individual images for Dark Frames subsequent stacking.
Page 10: Image Processing
Figure 12. frames, you will combine them into a single averaged dark frame for sub- The Unsharp traction from subsequent “light” images. Mask function can help bring out subtle detail in an image. 5. In the Process menu, select Setup Dark Subtract. 6.
Page 11 Figure 13. Figure 14. The Color The Stretch Balance command allows command modifies the data weighting of each color plane contained within the image in to improve the overall color order to improve contrast and appearance of an image. brightness. Color Balance is known to be white (or gray), this is an easier way to determine the scaling factors, and can be used to instantly color balance the image.
Page 12 Figure 15. 3. Use the same recommended processing order for batch processing as you would normally do manually. You should 1. Calibrate, 2. Adjust Color Balance, etc. You can remove selected images and files from the Batch Process list by selecting them with the mouse and clicking the Remove button.
Page 13 If you save to a file format other than .fit, you will need to check the Auto MaxPixel is the value of the brightest pixel in the image. When you are in Stretch box, or otherwise Stretch the image to change the Output Range focus, it will be at its highest value.
Page 14: Specifications
However, (available through Orion, check the catalog or www.OrionTelescopes.com). there is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a particular installa- tion. If this equipment does cause harmful interference to radio or television...
Page 15: One-Year Limited Warranty
One-Year limited Warranty This Orion StarShoot Solar System Color Imaging Camera III is warrant- ed against defects in materials or workmanship for a period of one year from the date of purchase. This warranty is for the benefit of the original retail purchaser only.