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Old 29-07-2018, 04:47 PM
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Originally Posted by Slawomir View Post
It's all interesting, but in reality, I think an amateur astronomer would be much better off with FLI16200 for less than half the price of what QHY asks for their QHY42. It looks like unless it is a mass produced sensor, a specialised CMOS is at least as expensive as CCD.
I know QHY are up and coming but I wonder how good their quality is over time with use. FLI is proven.

Yes I agree the cost/benefit ratio is not good enough at this stage to upgrade.

sCMOS would probably only mean a lot of underexposed images that are not as deep as we all want to see.

Greg.
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