Help in setting up Imaging System

[thebignoise]

Hi there, 

I have finally got around to setting up my imaging system but I have run into issues I hope you can help with:

• Filters - I have a ZWO Duo-Band (Ha/OIII) and an ZWO IR/UV Cut filter. I honestly can say I have no idea how to set these up? I have the details for them but do I just copy them in a word document and point to that?
  
• I have a ZWO ASI585MC OSC Camera at the moment and has been quite successful in capturing DSO's until I can get a dedicated cooled camera. My questions are: I can't find the dark signal setting, Linear to percentage nor the QE (as its broken down to RGB separately on the ZWO website) so again no idea what numbers to enter?
  
• In the configure Guider window I use an external Guide scope and I'm not entirely sure how to find the separation between the main optical axis and the guider in arc minutes?
  

I'm sure these are all simple questions to the initiated but please understand I am new to this program and no other app has required this information before so I want to get it right!

I look forward to hearing your responses so I can get going! 

[theskyhound]

Hello,

You should be able to find data files for your filters. Word isn't best. Use something like Notepad to make a simple text file and read the data pairs from that.

Do a search on the forum for your filters by name. There is also a thread with a lot of filter data here:
https://skyhound.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=2124

For the QE data, sample the outer envelope of the three colors. It might help to print out the graph and draw in a smooth curve that connects each of the three color profiles, smoothly, ignoring the dips between the filters. The sample your curve.

The external guide scope separation is going to take some ingenuity. One possibility is to center a star in the main field, and then look at the images from the guider to see if you can identify the field of view. Once you do, determine the star closest to the center of the guider field of view, then use the atlas to show both the star centered in the main scope and the one in the center of the guider. Right-click on the star in the scope and select "Angular Measure." Drag the measurement tool to the star in the guider, and then read off the separating between the two at the bottom of the Atlas window.


Tutorial for setting up an Imaging System that may help:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i63-OyqTxVM

[thebignoise]

Thank you so much that makes a lot of sense. I’ll have to put my thinking cap on as far as the EQ data is concerned. Looking forward to using the software. Thanks again.