Star?sh Guide Camera Operation & User’s Manual

26, The fourth check box allow you to perform a bad pixel removal operation on the image. Even after calibrating the image with the calibration reference frames, the image may have several hot or cold pixels. These are usually associated with defects in the image sensor and are at a fixed posi…

40, Predictive Guide Enable check box - this control enables the use of the predictive guide enable feature of the program. Initially after starting auto-guiding, the program simply relies on the information garnered from the picture of the guide star to calculate the guide corrections. After a …

9, Mac OS X Software Support Insert the CD-ROM that came with the Starfish camera and double click the install pro- gram’s icon to start the installation procedure. Follow the on-screen instructions. There are four files that will be installed on your computer by the installation: # 1) �…

49, Star?sh Guide Camera Reference - Imaging Windows Reference - Imaging -> Filter Wheel tab view The StarLink program has built in support for the Fliger Lakes Instrumentation line of filter wheels. The program will search for any filter wheels attached to the computer upon startup. If a supported wheel is f…

15, Another related topic to image adjustment is the histogram display that can be a useful tool for determining the correct exposure setting when taking a picture. Getting most of the pixel values in a wide range across the possible pixel values will help you get the most information out of your i…

20, How to - Capture Calibration data for the image sensor Modern image sensors have astounding image quality over those of older designs. However, astro-imaging places high demands on the sensor in terms of image quality due to the fact that the objects being imaged have such low light intensity. T…