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23 mars 2011 3 23 /03 /mars /2011 23:08

Some newly produced QHY5 don't have any hole behind the cmos sensor for cooling, but a solution exists ;-)

 

Cooling the QHY5 imager/autoguider (step 1.5)

 

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2 février 2011 3 02 /02 /février /2011 21:00

Hi !

 

This hack works with PHD Guiding now !

 

Have a look at the updated page : Add TTL outputs to your USB Laptop (Part 3, Software on Windows)

 

 

 

 

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30 janvier 2011 7 30 /01 /janvier /2011 13:03

This hack can be used on windows too :

 

Add TTL outputs to your USB Laptop (Part 3, Software on Windows)

 

Demo on Vista :

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29 janvier 2011 6 29 /01 /janvier /2011 23:49

Do you want to know how to use your USB/TTL hack on GNU/Linux ?

 

Just look at this page : Add TTL outputs to your USB Laptop (Part 2, Software on Linux)

 

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27 janvier 2011 4 27 /01 /janvier /2011 20:48

Hi !

 

Please have a look at my polar finder illuminator. Very usefull !

 

Polar alignment scope illuminator

 

polar10

 

 

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26 janvier 2011 3 26 /01 /janvier /2011 10:46

If you have troubles with your polar alignment scope, have a look at my tips : Tune your EQ5 polar aligment scope

 

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11 janvier 2011 2 11 /01 /janvier /2011 19:01

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The QHY5 noise cam also be reduced by software. Just

have a look on this page to see my experiments on Qastrocam-g2 :

 

How to reduce the QHY5's noise (step 2)

 

It works great ;-)

 

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5 janvier 2011 3 05 /01 /janvier /2011 20:05

Bored by the QHY5's noise ? Just try these simple advices :

 

How to reduce the QHY5's noise (step 1)

 

To be continued...

 

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5 janvier 2011 3 05 /01 /janvier /2011 14:33

Yet another try with the QHY5 on M42 :

 

m42-medium-test

 

I will try to filter the power supply to get less horizontal noise.

 

Happy new year !

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13 décembre 2010 1 13 /12 /décembre /2010 23:37

I'm still working on the QHY5 support on qastrocam-g2. Things are going well ;-)

 

My first real deep sky with the QHY5 :

 

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14x20s frames, gain at 50%, D=120mm, F=500mm, IR filter

 

This picture needs more pre-processing, but the QHY5 can give nice deep sky pictures ;-)

 

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