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reckon I would bite the bullet and change both the scope and the camera. A Mak Newt with a ZWO1600 mono cooled would be great on that mount for high res imaging. The camera needs filters, but you can use 1.25s with the 1600, which is a huge saving if you go narrowband.
of course, the 9.52 would be readily saleable, but if you decide to keep it for imaging, agree with Colin that you will need big pixels. An 11002 or 16200 would seem to be a good way to go, but either is way more expensive than the ZWO approach. An alternative would be to use a ZWO1600 with software binning, but you would end up with only 4m of 7.6micron pixels - still plenty for many DSOs, but not all. In other aspects, a software binned ZWO would be better than alternatives, with lower read noise, slightly better QE (possibly) and much better dynamic range.
Last edited by Shiraz; 04-10-2016 at 07:17 PM.
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