Guidemaster - Features

• Supported cameras for Guideing
  
  

  • Webcams
  • SC1,SC2,SC3 Modified Webcams
  • Meade LPI camera
  • All cameras, which either supports VFW or DirectX
  • Shoestring USB adapter for modified Webcams
  • Serial interface for modified Webcams
  • Trifid Nugget Camera from Yankee Robotics
  • ALccd 5 cameras:
    • PL-1.3M/C M42 Optic [französisch]
    • QHY5 QHY-CCD [englisch]
    • QGuide CCD-Labs [US]
    • ALccd5 astrolumina [deutsch]
    • Luna1.3B/C Lunático Astronomía [spanisch]
    • MagZero5 Centro Ottico San Marco [italienisch]
    • Qcam-5 astroQcam [dänisch]
      
      
    
    
    
• Supported telescop interfaces:
  
  

  • Paralell port
  • ASCOM interface
  • Serial port (LX200 commandset)
  • Shoestring (GPRINT and LXUSB)
  • Pierro Astro
    • USB Guider 1.0 (USB port, autoguider with ASCOM driver)
    • API 2.0 (Parallel port, autoguider with your parallel options)
    • API 3.0 (Parallel port, autoguider and EOS control with your parallel options)
      
      
• Supported imager connection (optional)
  
  

  • Shutter control for DLSR cameras
  • parallel port
  • serial port (DTR,CTS)
  • Shoestring DSUSB
    
    
    
• Feature list of Guidemaster:
  
  

  • Manual/Automatic dithering between exposures
  • Manual/Automatic calibration of the camera angle and slew speed
  • Detection of Backlash
  • Many languagefiles are available
  • Fast switching between 5 different settings (configurations) is possible.
  • Exposuretime can be selected from 1/60sec up to 5sec or even more
  • Display of guiding errors in text form
  • Display of guiding errors in graphs
  • Display of guiding errors in an XY-Graph to show guiding quality online
  • Sub-pixel accuarcy (0.1 Pixel resolution)
  • Agressivness of RA and DE seperate programmable
  • Optical and accustical signal when guidestar is lost
  • Fast drift alignment with webcams
    
    
    
• Comming soon:
  
  

  • Support of SBIG cameras as imager camera