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Originally Posted by Bassnut
Hey, sure, Planetary is a worthy cause, if thats the way he wants to start, great, NP. Its just hard to do both on the 1st night  . |
Or any night. You either set up for planetary or dso. Changing halfway through the night is horrendous--rewiring, rebalancing--forget it! My DSO road was DSLR followed by CCD monochrome. In some ways it's a good path because the learning curve is not so steep. On the other hand, you always look at the DSLR images and think "If only I had a dedicated astro cam!" If I did it all again and knowing what I know now, I'd jump right in with a monochrome ccd camera.
Geoff