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Old 22-08-2011, 06:37 PM
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While at Astrofest I happily imaged night after night with my QHY8 just replacing it in the airtight case with the desiccant and another batch of silica gel in a bag. Just removed the small rubber plug and placed the camera warm into the case. Never had a problem but imagine my absolute amazement after imaging til 2pm one night and the fog and dew rolled in that I took the camera off the scope and went to remove the plug to put it into is desiccant dried case to find I had not put the plug into the camera to seal it against moisture. So the whole night it had been running open to the atmosphere!!!!!!!
No damage done but there you go. The next Few nights the camera still performed perfectly. Just love the qhy8 and some of it's idiosyncrasies.
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