Applicable Product(s) : For All ASI Cameras
Description: Field tilt problems usually happen in imaging. Optical axis, flattener lens, adapters, and sensor tilt are all causes of field tilt in images. This post is to help diagnose which issue is causing your field tilt problem.
What do I setup to test?
Your imaging setup is connected to the computer and there are many stars in the field of view.
Q: How do Itest if a tilt problem is caused by my telescope or by my camera？
A: Take an image with your camera then rotate the camera 180 degrees (the telescope telescope doesn’t move). Thentake another image of the same field of view.
Analyze the images with software, such as CCDInspector 2.5.3.
If the field has an identical pattern after rotation, then the camera has a tilt problem.
If the field has the same problem, but it has rotated 180 degrees, the telescope has a tilt problem.
Q: How to make sure tilt problem caused by adapters？
A:
- Remove suspect adapters, connect the camera directly to the telescope.
- Try another adapter.
- Take another set of images to test if the problem is gone
Q: I use a field flattener or a flattener/reducer, but I see coma in the corner of image.
A:
- Usually this is caused by incorrect back focus (spacing between the reducer and camera sensor). Use suitable adapters make sure your camera is at critical back focus for that flattener or reducer.
- Your image circle for that flattener or reducer is smaller than the camera sensor.
Guys i have bought asi 2600,i was wonder the tilt plate should be nicely attached to the camera?when i have received the camera, had about 2mm of space and the tilt screw very loose?Thx
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You could publish a post in our Forum, you could post a photo of your camera as an attachment to show how the tilt screw loose.
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Brent, what you see on screen is the same position on camera not optic. I mean the screen shows a fixed point of camera all the time. Consider the sensor is tilted like this / ,assume we are checking top right. After rotation, it becomes like this \ . know the top right is gone to top left. So the same position of sensor sees the same focal length after rotation and focus does not change.
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Yes, of course the focal length is the same, and the focus does not change. Which we can know from your case is that the telescope might has a tilt problem.
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Im new to astro photography and recently bought asi071mc pro. Please let me know where you mentioned the solution for tilt problem and if there is no tilt problem.how picture will look like? Or ccd inspector will tell that there is no problem?
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What is the recommended method for fixing if it’s determined the camera has the problem. I have the tilt device for my ASI1600mm-c but I don’t have enough backfocus to use it.
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You don’t have enough backfoces? maybe try other adpter.
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It is correct. If sensor is tilted, when rotated 180 degree, two thing happens: Tilt direction (180) and sensor direction (180 degree). These two factor will neutralize each other. However, when optic is tilted, rotation of camera only changes the sensor direction and tilt is in the same place, thus field will be rotated 180 degree.
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Yes.:)
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that just doesn’t make sense, if the sensor itself is tilted then the out of focus corner should rotate with the camera rotation !!
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If the upper right corner is the out of focus corner, after the camera rotation, the upper right corner is still out of focus. The out of focus corner will not affect by the camera roatation.
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are you sure you don’t have this backwards ??
if it is sensor tilt the out of focus corner should rotate with the camera rotation right ?
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If sensor tilt on left-top, after rotate, the tilt problem still happened on left-top.
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