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Old 13-02-2016, 03:01 PM
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barx1963 (Malcolm)
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Welcome to IIS. Not sure what a "Rockmax" is, maybe you mean a Rokinon lense? Just be aware that they are a manual focus lense.
Traditionally, Canons have been favoured by many astrophotographers for a coupe of main reasons. Firstly, the Nikons for a long while had a very aggressive noise rejection algorithm that often deleted stars thinking they are noise (aka the Nikon Star Eater). I believe this has been less of an issue of late. Canon also until recently was the only maker t make a dedicated astro DSLR, firstly the 20Da and back in 2012 the 60Da. Unfortunately these were only limited releases.

I have been using a Canon 760d recently which cost about $1000 for the body and have found to be very capable. Of course if your $1100 budget is going to cover camera, lenses, telescopes, mount etc, you are going to have some hard choices. How were you thinking of mounting your gear and were you wanting to image through a scope or just the camera and lense?

Cheers

Malcolm

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