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Originally Posted by h0ughy
open for tips on setting it up  , ultimately i am looking forward to using this with the 14" ACF to hunt down PN's . Your work Dennis is an absolute inspiration  |
Hi Dave
Congrats on the newly acquired ST2K, I’m sure that you will enjoy it. The ST2K is not the most sensitive of CCD cameras and I purchased it mainly for its anti-blooming capability, real estate (1600x1200) and TC237 guide chip as I had been previously been using an older (Parallel) ST7E which was more sensitive but suffered from blooming and had the much smaller TC211 (?) guide chip.
Although I haven’t performed any side by side comparisons, I estimate that the ST2K requires at least 2 or 3 times the exposure to capture fainter objects, such as Eris at mag 18.7, when compared to the ST7E.
Cheers
Dennis