User manual SBIG ST-6

[. . . ] CCD Camera Operating Manual for the Model ST-4X, ST-5 and ST-6 Santa Barbara Instrument Group 1482 East Valley Road Santa Barbara, CA 93108 Phn (805) 969-1851 Fax (805) 969-4069 Note: This equipment has been tested and found to comply with the limits for a Class B digital device pursuant to Part 15 of the FCC Rules. These limits are designed to provide reasonable protection against harmful interference in a residential installation. This equipment generates, uses, and can radiate radio frequency energy and if not installed and used in accordance with the instructions, may cause harmful interference to radio communications. However, there is no guarantee that interference will not occur in a particular installation. [. . . ] You select from three strengths which affect varying degrees of dark pixels. This removes bright pixels from images by replacing them with a weighted sum of the pixel's eight neighbors. You select from three strengths which affect varying degrees of bright pixels. This command makes the image into a negative image by inverting the pixel values around the midpoint in intensity. It can be used to make negative images for co-adding with pixel offsets. This command resamples the image to effectively change the pixel sizes to square pixels. It is handy for achieving the correct aspect ratio in displayed or exported images although it reduces the resolution slightly and adds an smoothed appearance to images. This command allows you to do simple arithmetic operations on the image such as adding or subtracting a constant or multiplying Commands Dark Subtract Co-Add Smooth Sharpen Flat Field Scale Remove Cool Pixels Kill Warm Pixels Invert Pixels Resample Pixels Pixel Math Page 61 Section 5 - Camera Software Reference or dividing by a constant. This can be handy to make two images match each other in terms of brightness or contrast. This command is used to create a Track and Accumulate Flat Field image from a standard Flat Field image and a Track List. This command combines the standard flat field image with itself using the offsets specified in the track list. You specify an offset level to subtract from each co-addition of the flat field file and you select the flat field and the track list files. This command allows you to average several images together which can be useful for reducing noise. You select each of the images from the disk and the software averages them together and leaves the result in memory where it can be saved. Note that all images must be from the same model camera and have the same dimensions. This command is used to edit the parameters attached to images such as the focal length, etc. These commands flip the image horizontally or vertically. This is handy for making the orientation of your images match published images for comparison purposes. Note: On the PC these commands are available in the Display Mode menu. These commands are used to zoom the image 4x1. The Zoom command interpolates between pixels to create the zoomed pixels and the Replicate command, which is accessed by holding the Option key down before pulling down the Utility menu, replicates each pixel 4x4 times. Invoking these commands changes the cursor to a magnifying glass and shows the zoom region superimposed over the image. [. . . ] 83 Track List (def). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96 Track Menu. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 track mode . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 23 tracking interface cable (TIC). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [. . . ]