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Starlight Xpress Mini Handbook

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Handbook for the SX Mini Filter Wheel - Issue 2, February 2024
Handbook for the Starlight Xpress Mini Filter
Wheel with OAG
Thank you for your purchase of a Starlight Xpress Mini Filter Wheel. We hope that
you will enjoy using this advanced SX unit, which offers many unique features. This
handbook will help you to put it into operation and to understand its capabilities.
Please read it carefully.
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Summary of Contents for Starlight Xpress Mini

  • Page 1 Handbook for the Starlight Xpress Mini Filter Wheel with OAG Thank you for your purchase of a Starlight Xpress Mini Filter Wheel. We hope that you will enjoy using this advanced SX unit, which offers many unique features. This handbook will help you to put it into operation and to understand its capabilities.
  • Page 2 SX cameras and may be adjusted to suit many other makes. 6) The slim design of the mini Wheel minimises the loss of optical back focal distance to only 37mm overall (including the T thread adaptors)
  • Page 3 Handbook for the SX Mini Filter Wheel - Issue 2, February 2024 - 3 -...
  • Page 4 Installing the software: No drivers are required for the SX mini Wheel. The USB input is an ‘HID’ device which Windows recognises automatically. Popular third-party software, such as AstroArt and MaximDL include the command sets for the SX mini Wheel, and the latest SX software can also be used with the wheel.
  • Page 5 Handbook for the SX Mini Filter Wheel - Issue 2, February 2024 field. If you cannot see many stars, or they are badly distorted, slide the prism assembly a little further in, but be careful not to 'shadow' the main camera field.
  • Page 6 Handbook for the SX Mini Filter Wheel - Issue 2, February 2024 Starlight Xpress Mini Filter Wheel Communication Protocols Interfaces available: USB: 1.1 or 2.0 General parameters: Total Filters: This is the number of filters fitted on the wheel, and is 5 for the mini Wheel.
  • Page 7 Handbook for the SX Mini Filter Wheel - Issue 2, February 2024 Dear Observer, Thank you for purchasing a Starlight Xpress product. We are confident that you will gain a great deal of satisfaction from this equipment, but please read carefully the instruction manual, supplied with your product, to ensure that you achieve the best performance that it is capable of providing.