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Q S I 5 0 0 S E R I E S U S E R G U I D E Section 6
Accessories
T-mount adapter
The T-mount adapter plate attaches to the front of the camera body .
It comes standard on all QSI 500 Series cameras. The T-mount adapter is threaded with standard T-mount threads, 42mm diameter by 0.75mm pitch.
2” nosepiece
The 2” nosepiece screws into the T-mount adapter plate. The 2” nosepiece allows the camera to be mounted in any 2” eyepiece adapter. The 2” nosepiece is threaded to accept a standard mounted 48mm filter.
1 ¼” nosepiece
The 1 ¼” nosepiece is optional and screws into the T-mount adapter plate. The 1 ¼” nosepiece allows the camera to be mounted in any 1 ¼” eyepiece adapter. The 1 ¼” nosepiece is threaded to accept a standard 1 ¼” filter.
C-mount adapter
The C-mount adapter replaces the standard T-mount adapter on the camera faceplat e. The C-mount adapter is threaded with standard C-mount threa versions of the C-mo focal depth for slim ds, 1” x 32tpi. There are two different unt adapter plate which provide the correct and mid-sized QSI 500 Series cameras. You must use the correct ve body style in order to a will mount to full-sized
C-mount lenses will not rsion of the C-mount adapter plate for your chieve focus at infinity. A C-mount adapter
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Table of contents
- 5 What’s In the Box?
- 6 Get to Know Your Camera
- 7 Install Software and Drivers
- 7 Launch MaxIm LE (if purchased with your camera)
- 8 Connect the camera
- 10 Take an image
- 11 View the image
- 12 Camera Attachment Options
- 13 Using SLR Lenses
- 13 Attach the camera to your telescope
- 14 Electrical Connections
- 14 DC Power Connector
- 15 USB Connector
- 16 Guider Control Port
- 17 Cooling the Camera
- 17 Standard Air Cooling
- 17 Liquid-Assisted Cooling
- 18 How Much Cooling Is Enough
- 19 Controlling the Cooler
- 21 Internal Color Filter Wheel
- 22 Advanced Setup Options
- 23 Camera Selection
- 24 Status Indicators
- 25 Imaging Options
- 26 Status and Notification
- 26 Camera Status Indication
- 26 Camera Error Indication
- 28 Audible Beeper
- 28 Imaging Application Messages
- 29 How CCDs work
- 29 Types of CCDs
- 29 Full-Frame CCDs
- 30 Interline Transfer CCDs
- 30 Anti-Blooming CCDs
- 31 Microlenses
- 31 Single-shot color CCDs
- 32 Signal versus noise
- 33 Reducing noise in CCD images
- 33 Dark Frames
- 35 Flat Fields
- 37 Bias Frames
- 38 Stacking Images
- 39 Color images
- 40 Launch MaxIm LE
- 41 Camera Control Window
- 43 Cool the CCD
- 44 Focusing with MaxIm LE
- 45 Take a single image
- 46 View the image in MaxIm LE
- 46 Take a series of images
- 48 Image Calibration
- 49 Dark Frames
- 49 Bias Frames
- 49 Flat Fields
- 50 Flat Darks
- 50 Manual Image Calibration
- 50 Subtract Dark Frames
- 52 Scale by Flat Fields
- 53 Automatic Calibration in MaxIm LE
- 57 Calibrate Images in MaxIm LE
- 58 Combine Frames in MaxIm LE
- 61 Binning
- 64 Using the internal Color Filter Wheel
- 65 Shutting down your camera
- 65 Controlling your camera with other software
- 66 Autoguider support in MaxIm LE
- 67 Using an AutoGuider
- 70 Using a QSI 500 Series Camera as an AutoGuider
- 72 T-mount adapter
- 72 2” nosepiece
- 72 1 ¼” nosepiece
- 72 C-mount adapter
- 73 SLR lens adapter
- 73 Liquid heat exchanger
- 73 Recirculating pump
- 73 Color filter wheel
- 73 Guider Breakout Box
- 74 Cleaning the exterior
- 74 Installing or removing color filters
- 75 Cleaning the color filters
- 75 Cleaning the CCD cover glass
- 75 Recharging the desiccant
- 76 Technical support
- 77 Appendix A – 500 Series Specifications
- 81 Appendix B – Warranty