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Old 17-03-2010, 04:11 PM
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lacad01 (Adam)
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Gday Ritchie, here's an old thread which shows one of my cameras, uses the same Sony 1/3" HAD chip. Not too bad on lunar and some bright deep sky (M42) various clusters, etc, I just haven't had the time to properly dedicate to testing or using properly I've used it also prime focus on a 200mm reflector as well as 80mm refractor apart from that old camera lens.
I purchased a very similar camera to yours to use as a video finder and found that as you boost the gain as well as integration time, there's a lot of hot pixels, easily mistaken for stars so watch out for that Not a bad price but don't expect fantastic results.
If you haven't already, download VirtualDub as it's a great opensource video capture software. Here's a small sample of something I captured a while back:moon
cheers
Adam
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