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Originally Posted by Slawomir
Great news Greg, I am also looking forward to seeing images taken with your new camera  |
I took some last night. Hopefully more tonight if the clouds clear so we get the "clear" forecast predicted.
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Originally Posted by strongmanmike
Coupled to the RHA and in the sort of seeing you are likely to get on average, that's probably the closest thing to an all round camera-scope combo currently available off the shelf (well perhaps a RHA is a little harder to lay ya hands on?  ) to amateurs Greg, good for all manner of objects from small things like galaxies and many PN's, to medium-large nebs like Trifid, M17, Tarantula etc, niiiice
Mike |
That's my line of thinking on this. More FOV than an 8300 yet similar pixel size so you can always crop. 16mp is a good amount of pixels. Fuji X series cameras were 16mp APS sized for a long time and gave good sharpness.
The low read noise is similar to the clean Sony 694. The FOV suits a lot of objects and the sensor size is less hard on the imager getting everything squared up. The cooling is powerful and quiet and chip seems pretty perfect. QE is much the same as the 16803.
It doesn't replace the 16803 though as that mega wide field is great for many objects. Being able to unplug one and whack in the other with no adapter changes and simply refocus is very appealing. I have the packers for the Proline taped to the filter wheel so nothing gets disturbed.
The low weight also makes flexure problems not an issue (so far) but then I had them mostly conquered on my Proline and I would describe it as reliable now to give 20 minutes round stars. So if it will do 20minutes with round stars it'll probably do 1 hour.
Greg.