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Old 19-03-2017, 03:19 PM
kittenshark (Cheryl-Ann Tan)
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Originally Posted by pmrid View Post
Wouldn't it be nice if you could take the whole imaging train off the back of the scope and house it beside your PC/Laptop - connecting the scope to CCD by fibre optics. They do amazing things with multi-channel spectroscopy using fibre-optics. It seems plausible to consider taking it a step further to CCD imaging. How crazy is that?
Peter
I suppose the technology to do all this is already there; just whether they can make it within reach of the average layperson in terms of cost and availability is another question. But would it be just as fun tho?
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