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I appreciate where you are coming from Jase, and agree totally, but I'm looking at it from a crawl before you run perspective. This is also a thread to inform anyone who may be thinking of getting a camera in this price range or searching for CCD Camera info, so your reply about the SCT is a valuable inclusion.
For me I already have most of the prerequisites (I haven't updated my Sig for a while), including a start on the filters (Ouch! But the deal was good, which is why I couldn't afford that camera you linked to, even though I looked long and hard at it). Company 7 have the Optec Johnson UBVRI filters for $125 US ea at the moment.
The mention of supernova searches was only in context of explaining to Ken what Photometry includes. I am pretty well aware now of the requirements as far as critical tolerances in gear is concerned for astrometry and photometry. (I'm testing and comparing off the shelf, low end ($1000 or less) consumer CCD and CMOS cameras for "scientific measurements" as part of a Uni project this semester)
As for blinking images, I'd much rather let the computer do that. It has a much more discerning eye.
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