QHYCCD QHY8L User Manual
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Click “Live View” for focusing and framing. Click Shoot to capture an image or
use the Plan function. Note that for single exposures, time information is to be
entered in the box to the lower right. Be aware that focusing with this program
is a bit difficult because of the long time between image refreshes on the screen
when in live view mode.
ImagesPlus Camera Control
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Please download the latest version of the ASCOM platform. If it has the latest
UPDATE, please download it together. Install ASCOM and UPDATE.
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Download and install the ASCOM driver of the QHY8L.
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Start ImagesPlus program. Click “Camera” in top menu, then “ASCOM Color and
Mono CCD”.
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From ASCOM Camera Chooser, select QHY8L
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From the resulting popup box, click the CONNECT tab if it is not already selected,
then press the CONNECT button near the bottom. Answer the popup questions,
then go down and tick the box next to “Convert 1x1 Full Size Bayer Format to
Color for Display”. In the drop-down box, select QHY8L.
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Click the tab CURRENT SETTINGS, look for the “CCD Temperature” box, then
turn the cooler on and set a desired temperature.
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Next enter an exposure time and click EXPOSE. It will take an image and display
it.
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This program does not have live view. To focus, click the FOCUS METRICS tab
and press EXPOSE. In the resulting image, select a small area with stars and
draw a box around it by pressing left mouse button, the press “Use Sub-image”.
Select an isolated star then DONE in the popup box.
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In the bottom box tick “Loop” and the press “Expose”. This will continually
expose images and give focus metric information.
Use the QHY8L as a Guider in MaxIm DL
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the QHY8L has a built-in guide port. You can use the QHY8L guide port's output
signal through ASCOM to guide on a star. the QHY8L use 1*1 binning mode by
default and use normal readout speed mode. You should select part of the image
as a guide star image area.
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You should use a guide star cable for connecting the QHY8L guide port with
equatorial guide port (ST-4 cable, not supplied with camera). Run MaxIm DL
software. Select the camera icon in the toolbar (ctrl+w). There will be a Camera
Control window. Click Setup Camera button inside setup window. Then it will pop
up "Setup ASCOM" window. Select ASCOM from the menu of Camera Model.
Click Advanced button. Select the type of QHY8LS StarSenSeci from the window
of ASCOM Camera Choose, and then click Properties button to set some usual
value of parameters, like the value of GAIN, OFFSET and the speed of readout.
Then click OK button and go back to the Camera Control window, click Connect
button to connect the camera.