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All-in-one COLDMOS Astronomy Camera

QHY16803A

User’s Manual Rev. 1.0

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Summary of Contents for QHY09000A

Page 1: ...All in one COLDMOS Astronomy Camera QHY16803A User s Manual Rev 1 0...

Page 2: ...ding cable 1 T ring 2 inch to M54 0 75 1 Drying tube 1 Desiccant 1 USB hub bypass board 1 Screw driver for M2 hexagon screw 1 Screw driver for M3 hexagon screw 1 Screws for fixing filter frame and fil...

Page 3: ...tion 02 Filter installation 03 Use QHY16803A in EZCAP_QT 04 Use QHY16803A on ASCOM platform 05 Use QHY16803A in FireCapture 06 Peripheral Ports on QHY16803A 07 FAQ 08 Camera Maintenance 09 Specificati...

Page 4: ...V power supply is always connected when you use QHY16803A Turn the switch on For the first time the system will find a new device and search the driver You can keep skipping the online searching by cl...

Page 5: ...QHY16803A Note that after you downloading and installing the new drivers by using this software be sure to pull the USB cable out and then plug it in to enable the new drivers...

Page 6: ...op cap and photoelectric position detector 3 After you ve finished installing the filters you can turn on the camera and connect the camera to your PC with USB cable to make sure the filter wheel can...

Page 7: ...nect your QHY16803A to 12V power supply Connect your QHY16803A to your computer with USB2 0 cable 3 Run EZCAP_QT Select Connect in Menu Camera If the camera is successfully connected The title of EZCA...

Page 8: ...Control and set the CMOS sensor temperature You can enable the Auto Control and set the target temperature For example here we set the temperature to 10C The CMOS temperature will come to 10C very fa...

Page 9: ...use the preview tab to do preview And use the focus tools to do focus Then use the capture tab to capture image 7 In EZCAP_QT there is a planner for image tasking You can capture a series images by us...

Page 10: ...connection Please note that QHY16803A always transfers maximum bit depth by ASCOM to make the best DSO imaging performance The image format is 16bit width and patch zero on low bit MaxIM DL 1 First y...

Page 11: ...gain 1 and offset 10 to start Keep clicking Okay to return to Camera Control window The following instructions are going to show you how to configure the built in filter wheel in MAXIMDL Click Setup F...

Page 12: ...QHY16803A In the window shown below you can set up your filter wheel...

Page 13: ...QHY16803A Keep clicking OK to return to the Camera Control window Click Connect...

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Page 15: ...configure Sequence Generator Pro properly you can go to sleep and see images in the morning To use QHY16803A in Sequence Generator Pro you can follow the instructions listed below Open sequencer by c...

Page 16: ...lect QHYCCD Filter wheel as the filter and click the red connect button you should also make sure you ve downloaded and installed the ASCOM Filters Plug for the built in filter wheel you ve plugged in...

Page 17: ...Lum Red Green Blue and Ha as you installed them this way Then you make schedule events to take turns to use these filters as shown in the following picture For detailed and helpful tutorial of this so...

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Page 19: ...ents folder After it was installed successfully navigate to Document folder and you will find its installation folder as shown below Enter that folder and run FireCapture exe then select QHYCCD camera...

Page 20: ...vertor between TTL and RS232 is needed After you finished installing the drivers the serial ports drivers should also be installed You can check its COM number in the device manager in the Windows so...

Page 21: ...and the GND is also the cathode of the 12V power supply The grounding wire is included in the package you can use it to connect the camera to other equipment Metal case of the equatorial mount or meta...

Page 22: ...ra will stop working For example in the condition where there equatorial mount you are using also has a built in hub or where you used a USB hub already In this case you need to install the USB Hub by...

Page 23: ...ed to open the CCD chamber to clean the CCD on your own Because if you do it in a place where there are still lots of dust your effort may backfire Besides during the process of cleaning you may scrat...

Page 24: ...QHY16803A Remove all the screws on front of the camera case and remove the front case You will see two screws to fix the filter wheel case the middle layer of the camera Unscrew them...

Page 25: ...QHY16803A You will see the power PCB board Remove the two screw of the power PCB board...

Page 26: ...QHY16803A Remove the three cable carefully Please use a film to protect the CCD chamber optic window...

Page 27: ...QHY16803A The CCD chamber is connecting with the silicone gel tube socket by a rubber pipe Remove the two screw for the silicone gel socket...

Page 28: ...QHY16803A Remove the four screw for the CCD chamber There is totally eight screws for the CCD chamber Only remove the four screws pointed by the red arrows in this picture...

Page 29: ...QHY16803A Now the CCD chamber is removed The CCD sensor can be clean here...

Page 30: ...QHY16803A The CCD sensor has the AR coating Please clean it carefully by using the lens paper or another professional tools like the DLSR sensor clean tools...

Page 31: ...s service life or permanently break it So when you begin to adjust the CCD temperature you should avoid setting Cooler Power to its maximum value and you should gradually turn up the Cooler Power val...

Page 32: ...QHY16803A application program don t support this display please wait for latest application program that supports this display...

Page 33: ...dow of the CCD chamber may get dew The QHY16803A has the build in heat board on this optic window to heat the optic window to avoid it In most conditions it can take effect If the optic window still g...

Page 34: ...ize 9um 9um FullWell 100Ke Imager Size 36 8mm x 36 8mm ADC 16bit Readout Noise Typical 10 13 e Binning 1x1 2x2 4x4 TEC 2 stage Cooling Typical 40 below Ambient Shutter Butterfly Mechanical Shutter wit...

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Page 41: ...QHY16803A 11 Revision history Date of change Revision Content of change November 29th 2016 1 0 First edition January 12 2017 1 1 Added information about the back focus length...

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