[Placidus (Mike and Trish)]

Originally Posted by Lognic04

Hi M&T,
How would you recommend a CCD (with say, a kaf8300 chip) compared to
something like the ASI1600? The only reason i'd consider getting a CCD would be to bin, is binning worth having a noisier chip?

Don't know the answer to that, Logan, but probably not. Binning only produces a 2x improvement in signal to readout noise. The cooled CMOS chips can be quieter than that. If they made an affordable cooled CMOS chip that was at least 16 megapixels, and it came with a well documented library, we'd definitely want one. But for us, a 2x improvement gave us in 68 hrs the equivalent of 272 hrs unbinned.

Originally Posted by cometcatcher

Deep. Very deep. Deeper than deep. Deepest deep that deep can go.

Thanks Kevin!

Originally Posted by RickS

Amazing, M&T

Cheers, Rick. Glad you like it.