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Quick Start

1.  Place the CD into your computer’s  

CD-ROM drive.

2.  Install both the NexImage iCap and  

RegiStax software onto your computer.

3.  Thread the 1.25” nose piece into the body 

of the NexImage camera. 

See Fig 2.

4.  Slide the 1.25” nose piece of the camera 

into the eyepiece barrel of your telescope. 

See Fig 3.

5.  Plug the small end of the USB cable into 

the port on the back of the camera.

6.  Plug the other end of the USB cable  

into a USB port on your computer.  
Once connected, the Found New  
Hardware message will appear. Follow  
 the Installation Wizard until the device  
has been successfully installed. 

Congratulations on your purchase of the Celestron NexImage Burst  
Solar System imaging camera.

Your NexImage camera comes with the following:

+  NexImage Burst Camera
+  1.25” nose piece
+  CD including NexImage iCap and RegiStax processing software
+  USB Cable

Recommended Minimum System requirements:

+  Pentium IV, 2.0 GHz, 1GB RAM
+  Graphics card with 24 or 32 bit
+  Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7 (32 & 64 bit)
+  DirectX 9.0c or higher

1.25” 

Nose Piece

USB Cable

NexImage Burst 

Camera

NexImage iCap and 

Registax processing 

software

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Summary of Contents for NexImage 95518

Page 1: ...NexImage Burst USER S MANUAL Model 95518 95519 ENGLISH ...

Page 2: ...onnected the Found New Hardware message will appear Follow the Installation Wizard until the device has been successfully installed Congratulations on your purchase of the Celestron NexImage Burst Solar System imaging camera Your NexImage camera comes with the following NexImage Burst Camera 1 25 nose piece CD including NexImage iCap and RegiStax processing software USB Cable Recommended Minimum S...

Page 3: ...he Device menu and select ROI Specify or click on the ROI icon Draw the ROI with your mouse then click inside the red box to set the ROI The ROI can be reset any time by clicking the reset icon or going back to the Device menu Capturing Images 1 Double click the NexImage iCap icon on your computer s desktop to start the program See Fig 4 2 If the NexImage Burst camera is not already detected selec...

Page 4: ...mber of image frames that were captured i e if 300 frames were captured then enter 150 Press the Limit button E 10 Press the Video File E to select the destination location for your video 11 Click on the Advanced tab You can either select the amount of time or number of frames you wish to record See Fig 9 12 Press the Record button F when ready to begin recording video See Fig 10 13 Once recording...

Page 5: ... noise ratio of your stacked composite image is proportional to the square root of the number of frames combined This means that stacking as few as 16 frames will reduce the grainy noise of the composite image by 4 times While stacking as many 900 frames will improve the image by 30 times However stacking the individual frames is only half the power of the NexImage imager With the included softwar...

Page 6: ...red the object you can adjust the setting until the object is at the desired brightness and contrast How long to take Streaming Video At first you may think that the more frames you record the better However there are some limitation to the duration of video and the amount of frames you can acquire Resolution and file size can both limit the length of time of your video SPECIFICATIONS Sensor 1 3 i...

Page 7: ...e is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a particular installation If this equipment does cause harmful interference to radio or television reception which can be determined by turning the equipment off and on the user is encouraged to try to correct the interference by one or more of the following measures Reorient or relocate the receiving antenna Increase the separation between the...

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