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Congratulations on your purchase of the Orion StarShoot P1 Polar Alignment
Camera! The P1 is designed to polar align your mount quickly and accurately, with
an error as small as 30 arc seconds, within just a few minutes time, following easy
step by step directions in the software. Forget about hunching down, squinting
through a dim polar scope, guessing if you’ve angled it right to coincide with the
position of the pole star around the reticle. Let the program do everything for you,
fast and easy! And it works for both North and South Hemisphere alignment!
Parts List
● P1 Camera
● Lens cap
● USB cable
● Camera mount adapter
for specific mount
● Allen wrench
Drivers and software are available as a download from our website. Before
plugging in the camera, please go to www.telescope.com/P1 for Windows
software.
Camera Hardware Installation
To install the P1 onto your mount, you need the adapter that came with your pack-
age for the appropriate mount. Please contact Orion if you lose the adapter, or if you
purchase a new mount and need a different adapter.
The adapter comes in two pieces – the mount ring, which attaches to the mount
itself via two small setscrews, and the camera base portion which attaches to the
back of the camera, and bolts to the mount ring via a thumbscrew
(Figure 1)
.
Installation is simple:
1. Separate the two components of the adapter and slip the mount ring into
the front (north end) opening of your polar housing
(Figure 2)
.
2. When the ring is sitting flush and level inside the mount opening, tighten
down the two small setscrews from inside the adapter ring using the
included allen wrench
(Figure 3)
. Do not over-tighten the screws, just
snug enough to hold the ring securely. This step only needs to be done
once, as the ring can be left installed in the mount head. Make sure the
ring is sitting flush against the mount when installed.
3. Attach the camera base portion of the adapter onto the back of the
camera, using the three included Philips screws
(Figure 4)
. This step
also only needs to be done once, as the camera base ring will stay
attached to the camera.
Figure 1.
The
two sections of the
Mount adapter.
