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Model ST-i CCD Camera Operating Manual Santa Barbara Instrument Group a Division of Aplegen, Inc. 147-A Castilian Drive Santa Barbar

SBIG ST-i Manual On systems running 32-bit Windows such as XP you may see this: followed by the Hardware Wizard 9. Select "Install Automa

SBIG ST-i Manual Note: If you previously installed SBIG 32-bit drivers using the old 32-bit Driver Checker program and now want to install 64-bit dr

SBIG ST-i Manual g. Quit the Device Manager. 4. Install the new DriverChecker64 software. a. Use the installer that came with your camera or downl

SBIG ST-i Manual 2. Using the Camera Inside When you first receive the ST-i it’s wise to get acquainted with its operation inside the house where it

SBIG ST-i Manual This is what’s referred to as a dark frame and it’s what you get when you take a picture with the nosepiece covered and the shutte

SBIG ST-i Manual 13 Hot pixels are simply the pixels where the dark current is higher than the average and thus they show up as white specs agains

SBIG ST-i Manual pixels are definitely obscuring it. Now use the Dark Subtract command in the Utility menu. This brings up the Open File dialog whe

SBIG ST-i Manual 15 and decrease. Click the ones adjacent to the Range setting and you’ll seethe image contrast increase and decrease. Here’s a s

SBIG ST-i Manual Use the Graphics/Comm Setup command in the Misc menu to make sure USB is selected for the Interface. Click OK to set/confirm that

SBIG ST-i Manual resolution with 7.4 micron square pixels. The ST-i also supports binning whereby groups of pixels are combined to form a single lar

DECLARATION OF CONFORMITY We, Santa Barbara Instrument Group, a division of Aplegen, Inc., 147-A Castilian Drive, Goleta, CA 93117 USA, (805

SBIG ST-i Manual Grab Command Let’s take a dark frame with your new camera. If you haven’t done so already, screw in the nosepiece and put the rubbe

SBIG ST-i Manual Note: Dark subtracted images have an offset of 100 ADU added to them to ensure values near zero are not clipped. Focus Command Usin

SBIG ST-i Manual 20 Frame Size – Planet mode allows you to select a portion of the CCD’s field of view (FOV) for faster rep rates due to smaller dow

SBIG ST-i Manual 21 3. At the Telescope Connect the camera to the computer and start CCDOps. Establish a link to the camera and run the Camera Set

SBIG ST-i Manual 22 Resolution Saturation Counts High Res ~65,000 Med/Low Res ~65,000 Once the best focus is found, the focusing operation can be

SBIG ST-i Manual 23 4. Accessories for your CCD Camera This section describes several of the common Accessories designed to work with the ST-i. Tr

SBIG ST-i Manual 24 ST-i Options: A. 1.25" Filter (UV/IR filter recommended for color camera) B. C-mount adapter C. C-mount lens (SB

SBIG ST-i Manual 5. Glossary Antiblooming- When a CCD pixel has reached its full well capacity, electrons can effectively spill over into an adjoini

SBIG ST-i Manual 26 dark. The shutter covers the CCD. Dark Frames are subtracted from normal exposures (light frames) to eliminate fixed pattern and

SBIG ST-i Manual 27 Readout Noise - Readout noise is associated with errors generated by the actual interrogation and readout of each of the CCD pix

SBIG ST-i Manual 1 Table of Contents 1. Introduction ... 2

SBIG ST-i Manual 28 co-register and co-add (including dark frame subtraction) a series of images of an object. These exposures can be taken unguided

SBIG ST-i Manual 29 Appendix A – Connector and Cables Telescope Jack The Telescope Jack is used to provide tracking signals to the tele- scope driv

SBIG ST-i Manual Appendix B – Camera Specifications The table below lists the specifications for the ST-i camera. Specifications are typical and can

SBIG ST-i Manual 31 Appendix C – ST-i Color Camera Supplement The raw single-shot color image: The first thing you notice about the raw images fro

SBIG ST-i Manual camera control software to acquire your single-shot color images, make sure to save them in either SBIG or 16-bit FITS file format.

SBIG ST-i Manual 33 The image below is a screen captures of the single step process and the dialog box shows the settings in their default positions

SBIG ST-i Manual Tip: While in the Single Shot Color Processing dialog box, click on any slider, then use the keyboard right and left arrow keys t

SBIG ST-i Manual Enhancements Images of galaxies tend to have a lot of dynamic range and you may find it difficult to reveal the faint details in the

SBIG ST-i Manual To do this using CCDOPS select Utility --> Single Shot Color --> Extract Color Channel(s)... The Color Extraction dialog box

SBIG ST-i Manual 2. Normalize the Sky Background - Normalizing the Sky Background means making sure it comes out a neutral gray in the final image, n

SBIG ST-i Manual 2 1. Introduction Congratulations and thank you for buying one of our ST-i CCD cameras. The ST-i has the following features: •

SBIG ST-i Manual then you would reduce the Red Horizontal item by 1. After each adjustment hit the “Do It” button to see the results. [b] Color Balan

SBIG ST-i Manual Appendix D – Dimensions and Backfocus 39

SBIG ST-i Manual ordinary phone cables, this one flips the order of the wires. You can tell a tracking cable from an ordinary cable by noting that w

SBIG ST-i Manual 4 Installing the Software on Windows Systems This section tells you how to do a fresh install of 64-bit drivers for SBIG Cameras

SBIG ST-i Manual 4. Run the Driver Checker application and it will ask you about any ST Series Cameras (ST-7/8/9/10/2K) you may plan on using.

SBIG ST-i Manual 5. After answering the Classic/Pro question above you'll see the following dialog. The list of drivers shown may be differen

SBIG ST-i Manual 8. Now it's time to try out the new drivers. With your camera disconnected from the PC, then plug it into the PC with the