Orion STEADYSTAR 53077, STEADYSTAR 53076, STEADYSTAR 53081 User Manual

INSTRUCTION MANUAL

Addendum to the Orion®

SteadyStar

™

Manual:

Plug-In for MaxIm DL

#53076, #53077, #53081

Overview

The SteadyStar Plug-In for Cyanogen’s MaxIm DL allows the Orion
SteadyStar to be operated from MaxIm DL. This plug-in works with
any version of the SteadyStar software.

This plug-in can be used with any camera supported by MaxIm DL.

System Requirements

Operating System

Windows XP SP3, Windows Vista x32/x64 and Windows 7 x32/x64

Prerequisites

The standard Orion SteadyStar application should be installed
before this plug-in. This ensures that all prerequisites are already
installed and that the configuration directory already exists.

MaxIm DL

This plug-in requires MaxIm DL Pro or Pro Suite version 5.19 and
later.

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Installation

Please run the provided setup file and
follow the prompts (Figures 1-3).

Setup will determine your MaxIm
directory. If for some reason this
cannot be determined, please browse
to the path, as seen in Figure 2.

Configuration

Camera Setup

The SteadyStar plug-in uses the new
MaxIm DL AO Adaptor. On the guide
camera setup, select “AO Adaptor” on
the drop list (Figure 4).

Then click the “Advanced …” button
and the dialog in Figure 5 will be
shown.

Select your guide camera in the
“Autoguider Model” drop list. Then
select “Orion SteadyStar” for “AO
Model”.

Guide Relays

There are three ways to command the
mount from within the plug-in.

1. Use the SteadyStar guide port

2. Use the Guide camera guide port

3. Use the MaxIm Autoguider Output

To use the SteadyStar Guide port,
the plugin determines when a mount
bump is required. It sends the bump

Figur e 1.

Figure 2.

Figure 3.

Figure 4.

Figure 5.

notification back to MaxIm. Depending on the Autoguider
Output settings, MaxIm can issue the bump in many different
ways. For example, it can use the telescope interface or
Shoestring adapter. Or it can redirect the bump to the “Guider
relays”. But the guider is the AO Adaptor. So to distinguish
between the guide camera guide port and the SteadyStar
guide port, go to the AO Adaptor setup dialog and select “AO
Device” or “camera” on the “When Control Via is set to Guider
Relays, use those in…” (Figure 6).

Figure 6.

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