Starlight-xpress Lodestar-C imager/guider User Manual

Lodestar C handbook Issue 1 May 2011Handbook for the SX ‘Lodestar C’ one-shot colour imager and guide cameraThank you for purchasing a Starlight Xpres

Lodestar C handbook Issue 1 May 2011After a brief delay, the Guiding Info window will open, as above, and you will see the guide star, alongwith error

Lodestar C handbook Issue 1 May 2011Dear User,Thank you for purchasing a Starlight Xpress CCD Imaging System. We are confident that you will gainmuch

Lodestar C handbook Issue 1 May 2011it asks for the location of the drivers and you should see it set up the hardware as a ‘BlockIOClass’device in Dev

Lodestar C handbook Issue 1 May 2011be very ‘washed out’ (chlorophyll reflects infrared very strongly). Also, the infrared focusing of manylenses and

Lodestar C handbook Issue 1 May 2011image and confirming that the colours are essentially correct when using this setting. If the colours arebadly wro

Lodestar C handbook Issue 1 May 2011The settings shown in the picture are generally suitable for getting the best results, so try these first.Here is

Lodestar C handbook Issue 1 May 2011After colour conversion and some power law contrast stretching:Post processing of your images is necessary, if you

Lodestar C handbook Issue 1 May 2011The Lodestar C attached to an 80mm F5 guide ‘scopeThe focal length of your guide telescope is not especially criti

Lodestar C handbook Issue 1 May 2011focal length guide ‘scope, as it offers somewhat finer RA guiding resolution in the X axis if this isoriented East

Lodestar C handbook Issue 1 May 2011The image box will be empty at this point, but we need a frame to select the guide star from, so use theguiding op