Greg, The next run of cameras should be ready around the end of the month. We're scrambling to keep up with production. Each production run is larger than the...
As a business owner I understand. I suggest you ask for a 50% deposit with the order and I think you'll find that is pretty acceptable to a lot of people and...
Greg, We had thought about a 50% deposit but it is not the usual way we have conducted business in the past. When we entered the amateur astronomy market I was...
Is there a rule of thumb for guide scope size . I want to use a starfish to guide my 10" f/4 . Some folks I have read about on other Yahoo sites use the Orion...
You have a lot of latitude. The Orion will be fine. Your scope is 1250mm fl. This has been guided as small as 100mm fl without problems. So If you can fine a...
I guide a TAK FS-128 with a FS-78 f/8 with very good results. The Orion 80 is used by a lot of imagers. It is relatively inexpensive and has "OK" color. If you...
"violet filter ahead of the guide camera to keep the star size as small as possible." I am not sure this is necessary for guiding by itself Mike. If works for...
Max, You are right. The star centroid algorithm should be able to pick out the star center even on a defocused star image. I've done some testing on the...
I do all of my guiding with MaxIm (80%) and CCDsoft (20%). With the ST- 402, which is more sensitive than the Starfish, I found I would lose guide stars if my...
Larry, I believe there is a rule of thumb at work here - you want to keep the image scale of your guidescope/camera combination in arc-sec/pixels not too many...
Last word on this, from me anyway. The very small pixel size of the Starfish (5.2 microns) and the large number of them (1.3 million) gives this guider on any...
I just purchased a TAK EM-200 mount. It came with an STV autoguider cable. One end is a mini DIN6P and the other is the standard RJ12 jack. I use it...
Order this product: http://www.store.shoestringastronomy.com/gpcnv_tak.htm It is an adapter cable for your TAK mount and our guide port cable will plug...
I ordered it for now. I was hoping for a direct DB6(TAK) to Starfish(ST4) connection. I suppose I could figure out the pins and make one myself. It's just...
You can find the TAK pinouts here: http://www.takahashijapan.com/ct-support/supp-pdf/autoguide_new.pdf The Starfish camera's pinouts are listed in the user's...
That's perfect I will make a schematic and post if anyone wants to make one in the future. I did get the Starfish pins from the manual but was waiting for the...
What is the relationship between gain and offset? Using the default settings for camera gain and offset with MaxIM DL, I have to take a 15 second guider image...
Michael, Turn the gain way up. It will increase the noise with the signal but it is a good win. You should leave the offset set at the default. I usually set...
Thanks Bob I will try with the gain turned up. Not familiar with the MaxIM setting you are describing but will muddle through the Help section. ... but ... so ...
Michael, Look under the 'View' menu. It's labeled 'Screen Stretch' or Ctrl+H. It always defaults to 'Medium'. The Screen Stretch View will show a histogram...
... Do I understand this correctly . I shouldn't mount the guide scope with adjustable rings ? Will I always be able to find a guide star in my guide scope...
Any support for AVI or similar high speed capture software yet? MaxIm and Nebulosity are not the best for planetary imaging. Frame rates are slow. Max...
What sort of frame rates do you get with those programs? Perhaps Bob can enlighten us on the technical details but my understanding is that when you get above...
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