Sony user manual ‘Quick Starting’ your SXV-M5C system, Connecting up

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Handbook for SXV-M5C Issue 1 August 2004

‘Quick Starting’ your SXV-M5C system

In the shipping container you will find the following items:

1)The SXV-M5C camera head.

2)A power supply module.

3)A 3 metre USB camera cable.

4)An adaptor for 1.25” drawtubes.

5)A CD with the ‘SXV_M5’ software.

6)This manual.

You will also need a PC computer with Windows 98SE, Windows 2000 or Windows XP. This machine must have at least one USB port (ideally USB2.0) and at least 64 Megs of memory. If you intend to view the finished images on its screen, then you will also need a graphics card capable of displaying an image with a minimum of 800 x 600 pixels and 65,000 colours. A medium specification Pentium with between 500MHz and 3GHz processor speed is ideal.

Connecting up:

Plug the 5 pin DIN connector into the socket on the power supply box, and plug the power supply into the wall socket. The yellow LED on the power supply should light.

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Contents SXV-M5C Connecting up ‘Quick Starting’ your SXV-M5C systemInstalling the software Recording your first image Page Page Decoding the image to colour Correcting and refining the colour imageEnhancing your image Astronomical Imaging with the SXV-M5C Getting the image onto the CCDPage Page Achieving a good focus Taking your first astronomical image Processing the deep-sky image Page Taking pictures of the planets Processing a planetary image Other features of SXVM5C ‘Slew & Sum’ imaging Taking and using a flat field Accessory ports Using the built-in serial portsStar What you need Starting to guide Page Using the add-on autoguider Exposure times and image calibrationPage Page Page Camera maintenance Removing DustProcedure Dealing with condensationQE peak CCD sizePixel size Spectral responseConditions of Guarantee
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