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only a fraction of a second, astronomical objects will not drift significantly through a
telescope attached to an altazimuth mount or Dobsonian base during single image
captures. Use a sturdy mount that is appropriately sized for the telescope tube
being used. For obtaining the best planetary images, however, we do recommend
a motorized mount. Planetary imaging requires combining many individual images,
and having a motorized equatorial mount or a computerized Alt-Az mount will pre-
vent the planet from drifting out of the field of view of the camera during the time it
takes to acquire the large number of images necessary.
Computer
A computer is required for normal use of the SS-V. For astro-imaging in the field at
night, a laptop computer is highly recommended. For windows users the camera
driver and Orion Capture software requires Windows 7, 8, or 10. For Mac, the soft-
ware requires OS X (10.11 and newer).
Software and Driver Installation
Before the camera can be used, image capture software and a camera driver must
be installed onto your computer.
Windows Installation
Do not plug the camera into your computer yet. This needs to be done after install-
ing the driver and software. Turn on your computer and allow the Windows oper-
ating system to load as normal. Using a web browser, go to www.telescope.com/
StarshootV and locate the download .zip file for your Windows computer.
Unzip the TCapture install file, making sure to note what directory the computer will
unzip the file to. Double click on TCapture.exe to start the install process.
Note –
you may be required to be logged in as administrator in order to successfully
install the software. Choose the language you wish to use, and click through the
next few windows:
1. Please choose the default directory for installation for the easiest install. If
you wish to set a customer directory, you may do so during installation.
2. TCapture will ask to select
the components for install
(Figure 2)
. Select Full
installation, and leave the
default check boxes alone to
install the driver and software.
If you wish to install additional
video compressor plugins,
you may do so at this time,
but they are not necessary for
standard imaging through the
software.
Figure 2.
Select the components to install.