The_bluester
06-01-2019, 06:05 PM
Time to move on, having bought a cooled OSC camera I really do not have a use for this little critter. I am looking for $100 plus post to anywhere in Aus. Cam comes as pictured, camera, no memory card, no battery, no box, but with a 240V adapter to run it from mains power. I will also chuck in the T ring adapter I was using with it.
The cam is astro modified (IR filter removed) but has a screw on IR filter on the lens that comes with it as I was doing timelapses with it and it made balancing the colours easier.
Some caveats, this is an older model camera and while you can control it with software like Backyard EOS (BYE) which I was, it has limitations. You need a 32 bit operating system, I was using Windows XP though going by the BYE website you can use 32 bit Windows 7, I never tried that and I believed that Canon removed the drivers for this cam from the Win7 driver set, I never tested it as I did not have a 32 bit copy of W7 to try it on.
Further to that, live view did not appear until the generation after this one so focusing is a bit slow, and likewise if you want to do bulb exposures beyond 30 seconds you need a DSUSB or similar device.
Plenty of sensor noise as you would expect for an uncooled sensor of this era, but it produced some half decent results as a beginners point to AP.
Attached is a sample pic of what I could get out of it with about 130 stacked 30 second frames in Deep Sky Stacker on a C925 Celestron with 0.63 reducer on an equatorial mount, I used from memory about a dozen dark frames to cut the sensor noise.
The cam is astro modified (IR filter removed) but has a screw on IR filter on the lens that comes with it as I was doing timelapses with it and it made balancing the colours easier.
Some caveats, this is an older model camera and while you can control it with software like Backyard EOS (BYE) which I was, it has limitations. You need a 32 bit operating system, I was using Windows XP though going by the BYE website you can use 32 bit Windows 7, I never tried that and I believed that Canon removed the drivers for this cam from the Win7 driver set, I never tested it as I did not have a 32 bit copy of W7 to try it on.
Further to that, live view did not appear until the generation after this one so focusing is a bit slow, and likewise if you want to do bulb exposures beyond 30 seconds you need a DSUSB or similar device.
Plenty of sensor noise as you would expect for an uncooled sensor of this era, but it produced some half decent results as a beginners point to AP.
Attached is a sample pic of what I could get out of it with about 130 stacked 30 second frames in Deep Sky Stacker on a C925 Celestron with 0.63 reducer on an equatorial mount, I used from memory about a dozen dark frames to cut the sensor noise.