Hi, I'm new to the forum and no doubt this question is always asked
Ice has hinted that he is going DMK camera. Lester has a colour DMK.
At the moment, my 1250 focal length 10" newt with a powermate @ 7.7x plus the 6mm focal length of my toucam means I am imaging @ f38.5. Damian Peach seems to be at around f39 plus some resampling.
At the moment, i have very little room on a 640 x 480 chip of the toucam with Jupiter. In ppmcentre, i cut it at 440px instead of the default 400px.
Bird seems to have gone smaller size on his firewire, but more detail is present
I am in a quandry for next years Jupiter. Short of getting a 10" or 12" mewlon ( in my dreams ) or c14 (in my dreams again ), i am thinking of building a new aluminium OTA that is easily transportable. I have the dob driver II so tracking is not an issue. But what will the DMK's dictate to be the best ratio and diameter for planetary?
Is 16" fraught with hassles??? Is 10" at f5 and a DMK as good as you can get it. Should I try and mimic a c14 and go 14" but not at f10???
I am starting to lose it!