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FinderVISION™ Camera Systems
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FinderVISION™ - a video viewfinder system with electronic crosshairs
- General Description
- FinderVISION™ is a video system that is used as a viewfinder for an astronomical telescope or other telescopes or camera systems. This allows the user to remotely see a 5 x 6 degree (at 50mm fl) or larger field of view (FOV) with electronic crosshairs. The electronic crosshairs can be moved to any location within 90% of the FOV or fixed to the center of the FOV of a video camera image. The control box has 2 video inputs and 2 video outputs. The electronic crosshairs can be switched between the 2 outputs and can be switched between centered or moveable. The crosshair brightness can be adjusted from black to white and any shade of gray in between. This lets you set the brightness of the crosshairs so that you can just see them.
- Compatibility
- The control box can be used to
superimpose electronic crosshairs on any video monitor and any video source
including RS170, NTSC & PAL video formats.
When used with a high quality B/W monitor such as our 9” B/W CRT monitor, the video viewfinder can detect > 9.5 mag. stars under good conditions. Its is easy to recognize star fields and to compare with star charts or computer planetarium programs. It can also see deep sky objects such as M31, M13, M92 and M42. - Convenience
- No more trying to look through a finder at uncomfortable positions. If you have a fork mounted scope, you can use the video viewfinder no matter where the scope is pointed.
- You can find and align to the alignment stars for your goto scope. For high magnification video planetary photography, the video viewfinder makes finding the planet much easier. Use a video planetary camera and scope with the video crosshairs as a guide scope system for piggyback photography.
The FinderVISION™ components are:
- A video crosshair generator/ control box/ power supply, 12 vdc cigarette cord and AC adapter
- An Ultra Low Light B/W video camera with interconnect cables (.0003 lux at f 1.2) and a 5 to 50mm f 1.4 zoom lens. (The video camera is designed to fit an Orion 6 x 30 mm finder scope mount STK #07210 and can be powered by the video crosshair control box)
- An optional 12 vdc 5” B/W CRT video monitor with battery pack and AC adapter
- An optional 12 vdc 5.6” LCD video monitor
- An optional 115 vac 9” B/W CRT Hi resolution video monitor
- An optional finder-mount. (Fits Orion finder scope dovetail base STK #07215)
- An optional finder-mount dovetail base
FinderVISION™ systems - More information
For more information and prices please call or email: Frank at:1-800-343-3479 or fv@marksproducts.com
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