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3. In the Setup tab in MaxIm DL’s Camera Control Window, select Setup

Camera. Locate the Orion Parsec in the dropdown list and click OK

(Figure 10).

4. Click Connect and your Parsec will connect to MaxIm DL.

The Expose Tab and Taking your First Parsec Image

We recommend becoming familiar with the Parsec during the day. Connect the

camera to your telescope and focus on an object ¼ of a mile away. If you do not

have enough outward focus travel to focus this closely, you may need an extension

tube (available from Orion).

In the Expose tab:

1. Select Find Star in Exposure Preset (Figure 11). Use the default settings

and notice that X Binning/Y Binning is set to 2/Same. This cuts the

resolution to 1/4 and speeds up the download time while making initial

focusing easier to obtain.

2. Reduce the exposure Seconds to 0.1.

3. Click Expose and you will hear the shutter. Wait a few seconds for the

image to appear. It may be over exposed or grossly out of focus. Adjust the

telescope’s focus and adjust the

exposure time as needed to get a

focused image.

4. Look at the Pixel value in the

Information window while the

mouse cursor is over the image.

The Pixel and Average value

should be well below 50000

or your image is overexposed

(Figure 12). If you cannot get the

Pixel value low enough during

the day, you will need to reduce

the aperture of your telescope by

creating an aperture mask.

5. You may change the Binning X/

Binning Y to 1x1. For the Parsec

8300C, set the Frame Type to Color.

Note: Any time a setting is changed in the Exposure Preset, a * will appear next

to the preset name indicating the settings are different than the default. Click the

Figure 10. Select Orion Parsec in the pull down menu.

Figure 11. The Expose tab using the Exposure Preset default settings in Find Star.

Figure 12. The Information window

displays detailed information about the

image, including the Pixel count which can

indicate if the image is overexposed.

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