Handbook for the TRIUS PRO-825C Issue 1 September 2020
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Manual for the TRIUS PRO-825C colour CCD
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Thank you for purchasing a Starlight Xpress ‘TRIUS PRO 825C’ Colour camera. We hope
that you will be very pleased with the performance of this product. Please register your
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The TRIUS PRO-825C is an advanced, high-resolution one-shot colour, cooled CCD
camera, especially designed for astronomical imaging. It uses a third generation
version of the very popular Sony ‘EXview II’ CCDs that offer very high QE and
extremely low thermal noise. This ‘PRO’ camera uses an updated version of the
original TRIUS main board and has both improved read noise and faster download
time. It features an internal USB hub with 3 external ports and a dry argon CCD
chamber fill. The USB hub permits several other devices to share the single USB
connection and greatly reduces the number of cables required in a typical set-up. For
example, a Lodestar PRO or Ultrastar PRO guide camera and an SX filter wheel could
use two of the USB ports and the third might connect to an electric focuser, or similar
peripheral. The argon fill, along with other improvements to the cooler stack, has
improved the delta T to about -42 degrees C below ambient.
The camera also includes a CCD temperature monitoring circuit that provides
regulated set-point cooling of the chip, an adjustable chip alignment plate and a very
compact overall size.