Hi,
Please be gentle but at the same time tell me if I am crazy
I am looking to get in to Astro as I would like to have the scope GO-TO say a DSO and have a nice CCD capture it so I can manipulate it on one of my computers.
I am thinking of getting an 8" SCT (although would an astrograph be better) and a KAF8300, with the SCT I saw a tip along the lines of binning the KAF8300 2x2 would give awesome image resolution and would be a very clean, very sensitive camera with 100Ke well depth. I am interested in narrowband astro.
My budget is $4K to get everything I need, I am happy to order the smaller stuff from overseas to save cash, I see the ATIK 383L + CCD Camera ($1790 USD) and that seems to be in my price range.
So I would need a scope (it needs to be fairly compact/have a high WAF), any suggestions for this, any other bits and pieces, for example to attach the ccd to the scope also I understand monochrome is the way to go?
By all means please point me to any online guides that would help.
All advice on astro, urban, scopes, ccds, go-to and accessories is much appreciated.
Thanks for your time.
Cheers
Richard