Congratulations on your purchase of the Celestron NexImage Burst Quick Start Solar System imaging camera. 1. Place the CD into your computer’s CD-ROM drive. Your NexImage camera comes with the following: + NexImage Burst Camera 2. Install both the NexImage iCap and + 1.25”...
Capturing Images 6. Use the Gain (A) and Exposure (B) settings to make sure that the image is not underexposed or overexposed . 1. Double-click the NexImage iCap icon on your computer’s desktop to start the 7. Select the video format (C). For the highest program.
10. Press the Video File (E) to select the Processing Images destination location for your video. 4. Press the Align button (C) to begin the 1. Double-click the RegiStax icon on your 11. Click on the Advanced tab. You can either alignment process.
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6. You will automatically advance to the Stack screen. Accept the default settings and press To explore the many other features of RegiStax and view helpful tutorials, visit the the Stack button (F). See Fig 13. RegiStax homepage at: http://www.astronomie.be/registax/index.html How NexImage Works NexImage uses a light-sensitive imaging sensor to capture streaming video of any Solar System object.
Focusing Tips To achieve best focus, concentrate on a high contrast feature of the object you are imaging. Since the NexImage will combine as many sharp frames as possible to achieve one high-quality Focusing on small features such as a moon’s shadow on Jupiter or Cassini’s division in the image, you don’t want to take so many images that you start to detect the rotation of the planet, rings of Saturn will guarantee best focus across the entire image.