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Originally Posted by h0ughy
Gee Wizz all you foriegn guys, welcome and what an excellent image. Thanks, is that really pushing the toucam?
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Hi houghy,
well if Pierre did the SC3 mod (which is not easy and requires a lot of knowledge in electronics) reaching so good picture quality is possible. After a SC3 (replacing the color-ccd with a bw-ccd with much higher sensitivity)mod the ToUCAM is far away being a simple Webcam
. This tuned camera can compete with dedicated Astro-Cameras especially when cooled with a peltier element
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But dont forget the other components that a good picture needs: good equipment, good skies and a routined astrophotographer.
.And not to forget a very clever Postprocessing Software. I like "IRIS" very much, so my picture was processed with IRIS too
. Thanks to Christian for his outstandig work
By the way:
Do you know the WAT-120N CCD
?. This is a surveillance camera from WATEC Corporation with super high sensitive SONY-CCD and my absolutely favourite for imaging.
Currently i use the WATEC for more than 2 years and imaged hundreds of deep-sky objects with it.
