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Originally Posted by Bassnut
This might sound daft, but search as I may, I cant find a single mainstream CMOS cooled long exposure non-planetary (as in fast exposure), non modded DSLR astrocam. Many have Sony sensors, but they are all CCD.
Can anyone please point me to a superior CMOS-over-CCD cooled astrocam model. Or even any?.
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You have a point...nothing at all.
I guess that we are still willing to fork out big bucks for 15 year old CCD designs, so why should the astro camera makers change anything? It was only by accident that the new Sony CCDs turned out to be somewhat suitable for astronomy - even though they were designed for a different purpose.
OK, you win, maybe CMOS will not be appearing in cooled astro cams in the near future - not because of the technology, but because of the inertia of a tiny market.