Deep Sky Imager™: The Basics - Meade

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Connect The Deep Sky Imager Camera to Your PC To connect the Deep Sky Imager Camera to your PC, you need to install the Deep Sky Imager device driver and connect the USB cable: 1. Connect one end of the USB Cable to the Deep Sky Imager camera. 2. Connect the other end of the USB Cable to your PC or to a USB hub. 3. “Found camera” displays at the bottom right of your PC screen. 4. The “Hardware Wizard” window displays. The “Install Software” selection is checked as the default choice. Click “Next.” The Wizard searches for the driver. 5. (XP versions only) “Windows Logo Test” window displays. Clicking “Continue Anyway” will install a driver that should operate with most PC configurations. 6. The driver is installed. Click “Finish.” The camera driver is now installed and your PC will now be able to recognize the Deep Sky Imager whenever you connect it to the PC. Check out page 56 to learn some helpful tips for your camera. Windows Vista ® users: 1. When dialog (“New Hardware”) “Windows needs to install driver...,” select “locate and install driver software. 2. Wait for Windows to 'give up' the search—this may take a long time. 3. When “Windows couldn't find driver software,” select “Browse my computer driver software.” Select “Browse.” 4. Navigate to the driver directory: C\program files\meade\autostar suite\envisage\driver\2k-xp 5. When “Windows can't verify the publisher of this driver software” displays, select “Install this driver software anyway.” 6. When “Found new hardware - Meade DSI” displays, select “Close.” Plug into any PC port and the drive loads. The software drivers never need to be installed again. 4
Start the Suite Software If the Autostar Suite icon doesn’t appear on your desktop, you can start the Autostar Suite program by going to Start All Program/Meade/Autostar Suite. The Planetarium program will display. You can open other programs of the Suite by going to the Image menu and selecting the desired program, or You can run Envisage from Start/All programs/Meade/Envisage. You can open the Operating Instruction manuals or the Meade General Catalog by selecting them from the Main Menu screen of the CD ROM. The manuals can also be found (without a disk in the drive) in Start/All Programs/Meade/Manuals. Click the word “Meade” in the Main Menu or in the General catalog to go www.meade.com. 5
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Page 3: Install the Autostar Suite Software
Page 7 and 8: To open the Envisage Imaging progra
Page 9 and 10: Key to Envisage Controls 1. Gain an
Page 11 and 12: more... 6. An image should be alrea
Page 13 and 14: What Happens When You Press Start 2
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Page 17 and 18: The Parfocal Ring 1 It is extremely
Page 19 and 20: Automatic Adjustment Controls 1 Gai
Page 21 and 22: Image Processing Controls 1 Setting
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Page 25 and 26: Magic Eye Focus The Magic Eye Focus
Page 27 and 28: Time-Lapse Settings Envisage softwa
Page 29 and 30: Tracking Boxes and Centroids Drawin
Page 31 and 32: Autoguider and Telescope Controls 1
Page 33 and 34: Other Features Autoguider and Teles
Page 35 and 36: Dark Frames is a useful feature for
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Page 39 and 40: Color Filters and the Black and Whi
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DSI II Features The following featu
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