Starlight-xpress Oculus Manuel d'utilisateur

Oculus handbook Issue 2 January 2013Handbook for the SX ‘Oculus’ high resolution all-sky cameraThank you for purchasing a Starlight Xpress ‘Oculus’ al

Oculus handbook Issue 2 January 2013 Anti-blooming: Overload margin greater than 1000x. Dark current: Less than 0.1 electrons/second @ + 10C ambient

Oculus handbook Issue 2 January 2013good a view of the sky as possible. If you cannot avoid stray light getting into the field of view, thenraising th

Oculus handbook Issue 2 January 2013a mast or roof. As the camera power is taken from the USB cable, any long leads should be as heavy aspossible to r

Oculus handbook Issue 2 January 2013Imaging with the Starlight Xpress softwareWith the Oculus connected to the PC, open ‘Oculus_USB.exe’ and find the

Oculus handbook Issue 2 January 2013If this is an initial setting up session, set the ‘Autosave’ to off and select ‘Continuous’ mode. Theexposure time

Oculus handbook Issue 2 January 2013Once the position and focus are good, try running an image sequence in ‘Autosave’ mode. An exposuretime of 30 seco

Oculus handbook Issue 2 January 2013generator will add an image file number at the bottom left of your AVI images and this can be usefulwhen searching

Oculus handbook Issue 2 January 2013gritty dirt, or you may scratch the plastic. A spare dome is supplied with the Oculus and replacementsmay also be