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Old 27-07-2007, 10:31 PM
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You can get better stars, from memory I don't think I used an IR filter with those shots. If I get a chance I'll try to take some shots out at Duckadang and post them when I get back and compare them with the 300D.

Don't think the 300D is immune from blobby stars. Here is a center un-resized crop of M7 using the 300D and the ED80. Often the blobbiness of stars (or lack thereof) can be brought about by the scale that the image is being viewed at. Among other things.

Certainly from a width field of view perspective the 300D wins hands down. Just don't hope to get the same sort of field of view with a 300 that you did with the ToUcam in the 80. If you want a narrow field of view like the ToUcam then you will have to either go for a small chip, or use multi-barlows and that would be extremely frustrating and time consuming as far as guiding and exposure times are considered.
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