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- Page 1 All-in-one COLDMOS Astronomy Camera QHY16803A User’s Manual Rev. 1.0...
- Page 2 QHY16803A This document is an online document. You may save this PDF file or print it out. QHYCCD reserves the right to change this user manual without prior notice. Package Contents Please confirm that the package contains the following items:...
- Page 3 QHY16803A Table of Contents 01 Software Installation 02 Filter installation 03 Use QHY16803A in EZCAP_QT 04 Use QHY16803A on ASCOM platform 05 Use QHY16803A in FireCapture Peripheral Ports on QHY16803A 07 FAQ 08 Camera Maintenance 09 Specifications 10 Mechanical Dimensions...
- Page 4 Note that when you run its driver setup program, you will be prompted to install camera driver, network card driver, and FTDI Serial port driver. Since IC16803A and QHY16803A use the same system driver and there's no network card in the QHY16803A, the network driver is actually no use.
- Page 5 QHY16803A Note that after you downloading and installing the new drivers by using this software, be sure to pull the USB cable out and then plug it in to enable the new drivers.
- Page 6 4. Install the top cap. Now we have finished installing filters, we are going to introduce how to use QHY16803A in EZCAP_QT, MAXIMDL, and Sequence Generator Pro.
- Page 7 03 Use QHY16803A in EZCAP_QT EZCAP_QT is the software developed by QHYCCD. This software has the basic capture function for QHYCCD deep sky cameras. You can use this QHY16803A camera with its built-in filter wheel in this software. 1. Install EZCAP_QT 2.
- Page 8 QHY16803A That doesn't necessarily mean that the camera and your computer are not connected. In this case, you can just wait for a minute and click 'connect' again, then you can see it will be connected successfully. This is because it usually takes a while to load its firmware into your computer.
- Page 9 QHY16803A 6. You can use the preview tab to do preview. And use the focus tools to do focus. Then use the capture tab to capture image. 7. In EZCAP_QT there is a planner for image tasking. You can capture a series images by using the...
- Page 10 ASCOM connection and does not support the ASCOM VIDEO connection. Please note that QHY16803A always transfers maximum bit depth by ASCOM to make the best DSO imaging performance. The image format is 16bit width and patch zero on low bit.
- Page 11 QHY16803A Normally, you can set the gain=1 and offset=10 to start. Keep clicking "Okay" to return to Camera Control window. The following instructions are going to show you how to configure the built-in filter wheel in MAXIMDL. Click "Setup Filter" in the Camera Control window.
- Page 12 QHY16803A In the window shown below, you can set up your filter wheel.
- Page 13 QHY16803A Keep clicking "OK" to return to the Camera Control window. Click "Connect"...
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- Page 15 Open sequencer by clicking the button in the red rectangle as shown in the picture below. If you've connected QHY16803A to your PC before click that red button. The red button will turn to green as shown in the picture below.
- Page 16 QHY16803A The next step is going to configure the built-in filter wheel. Before you select QHYCCD Filter wheel as the filter and click the red connect button, you should also make sure you've downloaded and installed the ASCOM Filters Plug for the built-in filter wheel, you've plugged in the 12V power supply cable, and the initialization of filter wheel has been finished.
- Page 17 QHY16803A For example, you can change the filter names to Lum, Red, Green, Blue, and Ha as you installed them this way. Then you make schedule events to take turns to use these filters as shown in the following picture.
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- Page 19 By default, it will be installed in the "Documents" folder. After it was installed successfully, navigate to "Document folder", and you will find its installation folder as shown below. Enter that folder and run "FireCapture.exe", then select QHYCCD camera. And after the loading, you will see the image on FireCapture like shown below.
- Page 20 06 Peripheral Ports on QHY16803A Serial ports QHY16803A provides two serial ports, which are connected to the built-in USB hub through FTDI USB to Serial chip. These two serial ports provide standard RS232 signal level(±10V). You can use it to connect your camera to electric focuser and even equatorial mount. But note that this signal level is different from TTL signal level used in EQMOD.
- Page 21 QHY16803A port output a indicative signal during the exposure cycle. These two ports use optocoupler. If you want to use these two ports, you can consult QHYCCD for detail method for electric connection. Grounding port Keep the camera in good contact with the earth is the premise that the entire shooting system can work safely and properly.
- Page 22 After you've installed that, those two USB type-A ports and those two serial ports become invalid. Note that the camera used in instructions are not QHY16803A, but they have similar structure. Follow the instruction carefully. USB type-B port This port is used to connect the camera to the computer.
- Page 23 1. What's the back focus length of QHY16803A？ The back focus length of QHY16803A is between 44mm to 45mm, and if it is used with QHYOAG- M and M54 adapter, the back focus length will be between 57.5mm 58.5mm. For more information, please see the tenth part of this manual.
- Page 24 QHY16803A Remove all the screws on front of the camera case and remove the front case You will see two screws to fix the filter wheel case (the middle layer of the camera). Unscrew them.
- Page 25 QHY16803A You will see the power PCB board. Remove the two screw of the power PCB board...
- Page 26 QHY16803A Remove the three cable carefully. Please use a film to protect the CCD chamber optic window.
- Page 27 QHY16803A The CCD chamber is connecting with the silicone gel tube socket by a rubber pipe. Remove the two screw for the silicone gel socket.
- Page 28 QHY16803A Remove the four screw for the CCD chamber. There is totally eight screws for the CCD chamber. Only remove the four screws pointed by the red arrows in this picture.
- Page 29 QHY16803A Now the CCD chamber is removed. The CCD sensor can be clean here.
- Page 30 QHY16803A The CCD sensor has the AR coating. Please clean it carefully by using the lens paper or another professional tools (like the DLSR sensor clean tools)
- Page 31 QHY16803A 3. How to protect the cooler in QHY16803A? The cooler in QHY16803A can lower the CCD temperature to a value that's almost 40 degrees centigrade below the ambient temperature. So you need to be careful to avoid thermal shock, which refers to when the cooler's temperature rises or fall dramatically, the cooler is subjected to strong internal stress due to contraction principle.
- Page 32 QHY16803A application program don't support this display, please wait for latest application program that supports this display.
- Page 33 If the environment humidity is very high, the optic window of the CCD chamber may get dew. The QHY16803A has the build-in heat board on this optic window to heat the optic window to avoid it. In most conditions it can take effect.
- Page 34 QHY16803A 9 Specifications CCD Sensor KAF16803 Standard Grade (Mono) Effective Pixels 16mega pixels Pixel Size 9um*9um FullWell 100Ke- Imager Size 36.8mm x 36.8mm 16bit Readout Noise Typical 10-13 e Binning 1x1,2x2,4x4 2 stage Cooling Typical -40 below Ambient Shutter Butterfly Mechanical Shutter with Uniform illumination...
- Page 35 QHY16803A 10 Mechanical Dimensions 1. QHY16803A without OAG...
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- Page 41 QHY16803A 11 Revision history Date of change Revision Content of change November 29 First edition 2016 January 12, Added information about the back focus length 2017...