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QHY5III Series

 

03 Color Balance for Color QHY5III Camera 

SharpCap will start at the default RGB balance for color camera. Here is the screenshot of the 
QHY5III224C start up 

 

 
For color camera. SharpCap will show the WB Red/Green/Blue progress bar. 
 
 
Since the color balance is the ratio between Red to Green and the Blue to Green. You can keep 
the Green color to 128 and adjust the red and blue. 

 

Summary of Contents for QHY5III174C

Page 1: ...USB3 0 high speed camera QHY5III Series User s Manual REV 1 2...

Page 2: ...QHY5III Series This document is an online document You may save this PDF file or print it out QHYCCD reserves the right to change this user manual without prior notice...

Page 3: ...or the new version of SharpCap and QHYCCD has already made SharpCap Patch for it You should download and install it prior to using SharpCap 5 Connect QHY5III series cameras to your PC with USB3 0 cabl...

Page 4: ...or example you can see the drivers we need are the latest versions and don t need to be updated as shown in the following picture Note that after you downloading and installing the new drivers by usin...

Page 5: ...1ms Then try to reduce the USB Traffic value For modern computer like the i7 4core It should get max performance But please note not all computer can get best performance The CPU loading the save ene...

Page 6: ...color balance 6 If you want to try the 16bit image It is best to set the USB Traffic 5 For QHY5III174 Otherwise the USB transfer may hang because the data bandwidth is exceed the capability Then swit...

Page 7: ...QHY5III Series...

Page 8: ...GB balance for color camera Here is the screenshot of the QHY5III224C start up For color camera SharpCap will show the WB Red Green Blue progress bar Since the color balance is the ratio between Red t...

Page 9: ...close to zero Then you can easy to get correct color balance Otherwise it will not easy to get it The following image shows the offset is good and you can not get good balance The reason is that the C...

Page 10: ...ect the true value of the R G And the ratio of R G will arious when the image light changed It is hardly to correct with a fixed ratio But for DSO capture You should keep the offset above zero and avo...

Page 11: ...lled If not please install it 3 Run MAXIMDL 4 In camera model select list select ASCOM and then select QHYCCD Cameras Capture 5 In properties select QHY5IIIxxx Camera 6 Normally you can set the gain 1...

Page 12: ...uiding You can use PHD Guiding software and the on camera guide port of QHY5III Camera PHDGuiding can connect with QHY5III camera via ASCOM 1 In PHDGudiing 2 5 Select ASCOM Camera Choose in Camera and...

Page 13: ...r select QHYCCD Camera Capture 3 In QHYCCD Setup Select QHY5IIIxxx camera 6 Normally you can set the gain 1 and offset 10 to start The speed and overscan calibration options are no using in QHY5III ca...

Page 14: ...QHY5III Series 8 Select button to begin preview 9 Select a star in the screen and click to start calibration and guiding...

Page 15: ...ideo appearing on the SharpCap will be sent to any of software that support the WDM camera like the HandyAvi Adobe video encoder online chat software etc This function is very useful for the video liv...

Page 16: ...QHY5III Series...

Page 17: ...QHY5III guide circuit has an opto coupler inside The common pin is normally the GND Normally the four direction pin of the mount is pulled up by the mount circuit And when guide pulse comes the QHY5I...

Page 18: ...ector is fully compatible with the EQ5 EQ6 Celestron iOpton Guide Socket The Pin Sequence is When face to the connector of the cable The Socket side mount side is If you are using other mount please c...

Page 19: ...B transfer and cause the data packet lost and cause it hang You need make sure the computer and the mount is well grounded 3 2 If the USB port s voltage not enough Some computer s USB port 5V is not e...

Page 20: ...ther method to get the infinine on the imager You need select the C or CS lens by the CMOS sensor size Normally speaking the CS lens only covers 1 3inch sensor size So QHY5III178 and QHY5III174 can on...

Page 21: ...exposure time The QHY5III290 has almost no amplifier light itself 8 The debayer sequence of QHY5III color camera in major astronomy software Software QHY5III174C QHY5III178C QHY5III224C QHY5III290C Q...

Page 22: ...ro under DDR mode on SharpCap what s the solution for this problem Recently we have been told by our users that the FPS of their cameras sometimes suddenly drops to zero under DDR mode on SharpCap It...

Page 23: ...value of USB traffic to decrease the FPS of the cameras Note that by using previous version of SharpCap Patch the value of USB traffic cannot be set to a value large enough so you should go to our we...

Page 24: ...ries 09 QHY5III Mechanical Size Front Side Sensor Back Focal Length Back focal length of QHY5III series camera is between 10mm 12mm So that it support both CS mount and C mount with a 5mm C mount exte...

Page 25: ...te of change Revision Content of change December 20th 2016 1 0 First edition January 5th 2017 1 1 Add introduction about broadcast application Section 5 May 25 2017 1 2 Added the mechanical dimensions...

Page 26: ...cases less than 100 ms For DSOs few objects some bright planetary nebulas open clusters or glubular clusters could be imaged with 100 to 500 ms exposition time with the most recent sensors For galaxi...

Page 27: ...rom the bad ones I don t use automatic sort out Of course it takes lot of time but I m sure it s efficient You can use automatic process if you prefer For registration I use Registax 5 0 in monopoint...

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