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Originally Posted by silv
Interesting new hardware perspective: reduce the required exposure time instead of perfecting the tracking?
And the box out of which we think gets smaller and smaller:
The Polarie, my Samyang 500mm 6.3, the ZWO CMOS ASI1600MM-Cool cam, 2 ballheads and a tripod = 4.5kg -
and *coughs* a recording laptop with multiple fast processors and fibre optic SAN access.
The SAN can help with reducing heating cost during winter  |
looks to like a way to overcome lots of problems that have traditionally been solved by throwing heaps of money at them. Your setup could possibly do very nicely.
maybe there are some ways around the processing issue:
- lots of fast cores and memory (I just got a second i7Q laptop for this task)
- subframe selection to optimise the field of view (only take what you really need)
- 8 bit data gathering (will give plenty of dynamic range if you have low read noise and take enough short subs)