Santa Barbara Instrument Group ST-5C, Operating Manual

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Section 2 - The First Day with the Camera
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box to the DEMO.SLD script which we created for you and hit Enter. Now you are presented
with more choices. Temporarily ignore these and hit Enter again. When in doubt, just hit Enter
to use the standard defaults. You are now viewing a library of images created with the TC-255
chip in your camera. These will run until you hit Esc.
You can adjust your monitor's brightness or contrast for best view. If you find an image
you wish to freeze, hit the Space bar. Hit the R key to resume slide show or hit any other key to
fast forward through the images.
File Menu
To call up specific images stored in image files, Esc the Slide Show command. In order to
display an image, it is necessary to first select its image file. Move the cursor to the File menu,
hit Enter, select the Open command and again hit Enter. Now you see the File Open dialog
presenting you with many choices. There are files and file directories Directories are created by
the software and later by you to organize and store images. The current directory you are in is
noted at the top. Move the highlighted cursor to the MOON.255 file and click on it twice in
short succession (double-click) or hit Enter.
You are first shown with the image header data pertaining to that image. After viewing
the data, hit Enter. What happens next depends on the OS you are running under:
Windows 95/Macintosh OS
The image is displayed in a window. Like all windows under these Operating Systems
they can be moved around and resized. CCDOPS allows you have one image open at a
time.
When you have an image open another window appears on the desktop named
the Contrast Window. Settings in the Contrast Window control how the image is
displayed. Adjusting the Background setting and hitting the Do It/Apply button
changes the brightness of the image. The Range setting controls the contrast. You can
enlarge or reduce the image with the Mag pop-up and apply a light Smoothing or Invert
the image. Finally the Auto checkbox lets CCDOPS set the Background and Range items
automatically based upon the image data and is always a good first step.
DOS
Highlight the Display menu with a mouse click or the cursor keys. Execute the Image
command and the software brings up the Display Settings dialog. Use the mouse or the
cursor keys to select the Photo display mode and then hit Enter one last time and your
selected image is now displayed.
If you have a VESA based SVGA display adapter, depress the up/down arrows
to adjust the image brightness and right/left arrows to adjust its contrast. This feature
allows real time display optimizing. If you are not getting a satisfactory image display,
refer to the Graphics Setup command in the CCDOPS Software Manual for help. Note
that images will almost always look better on a video monitor than from a laptop LCD.
If you wish to increase image size, again refer to Graphics Setup command in the
CCDOPS Software Manual and change the graphics card to VGA or MCGA. Your
selected image will still be held in the image buffer, ready for redisplay when selected.
When you're done with looking at the image hit Esc to return to main menu.
Utility Menu
The next menu to the right, Utility, allows you to modify an image. Pull down the Utility menu.
These commands can be used without permanently modifying the selected image until you
save it. Move back to File menu.
Open and display the Jupiter image and study the image briefly. Esc back to the main
menu. Move to Utility menu and execute the Sharpen command. In the Sharpen dialog select