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Old 08-05-2014, 06:08 PM
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Graham, I've owned an ATIK 4000 mono. The colour version has basically the same sensor sizes etc. They are a good camera - easy to work with, no difficulty setting up and not too noisy. But, I found that the cooler was not the best. It would drop 30C below ambient and would need the supplementary water cooler to go any further. I found that limiting in summer. Perhaps the cooling has improved since I bought mine.
The pixels are 7.4 microns square so on an RC10 at F8, this would produce an image scale of 0.75 arc seconds per pixel. You might want to consider whether that is a bit on the low side.

Peter
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