Orion 52185, 52186 instruction manual Rev

MASK

Figure 9. Using MASK option for custom on-screen crosshairs.

Up to 4 rectangular masks that can be resized and positioned anywhere on screen can be useful to make a cross-hair to aid in centering objects on screen (Figure 9). This feature enables the Deep Space Video Camera to be used as a finderscope camera.

OPTION

The option menu contains features that will be modified less frequently than the main menu features. (Figure 10).

TITLE

Use UP/DOWN/LEFT/RIGHT and CENTER buttons to select up to 20 characters to be used as an on-screen title (Figure 11 & 12.).

H-REV

Horizontal Mirror Function – Image is flipped in the Horizontal axis.

V-REV

Vertical Mirror Function – Image is flipped in the Vertical axis.

COLOR BAR

The Color Bar (Figure 13) is a useful feature to test video output from cam- era to your viewing device and can be used to test signal before and/or after camera is attached to telescope.

GAMMA

TYPE A – 0.45 Gamma (Lighter) TYPE B – 1.0 Gamma (Darker)

ZOOM

Digital zoom x2 – ON or OFF

ENHANCER

MID Sharpness or HIGH Sharpness

DAY/NIGHT

AUTO – Automatically switches to COLOR for bright objects and BLACK

&WHITE for low light object. DAY/EXT – COLOR mode always.

NIGHT – BLACK & WHITE mode always.

PRIORITY

PRIORITY (AGC/SENSE) controls the auto-darkening on bright objects.

Set to AGC for low light deep space objects.

RETURN

Select to return to main menu.

EXIT

SAVE – exit and save current settings.

PRESET – exit and default to factory defined settings.

Figure 10. OPTION sub menu.

Figure 11. TITLE edit menu.

Figure 12. TITLE being used with live image.

Figure 13. Color Bar Test.

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