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Old 18-07-2012, 02:39 PM
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Originally Posted by Poita View Post
Why would you not want more pixels for planetary if they were available in a CCD size that meant you could use them?
You will never use this much real estate to do planetary imaging. The main reason why is that as you increase manification to fill the sensor the image will become increasingly dimmer and therefore require the need to increase gain and reduce exposure. You will not have a scope wide enough to even use 3/4 of the sensor.

For solar you would maybe use half.

Added to that is the well depth seems far too low to me.
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