Summary by renormalised is spot on.
Below is a description from Bintel (
https://www.bintelshop.com.au):
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$149.00Meades's Autostar Suite, supplied with the exciting new LPI (Lunar Planetary Imager) can be used on any telescope for making images! It's VGA resolution (640x480) color CMOS chip is capable of creating high-quality lunar and planetary images, as well as daytime terrestrial images. In addition the Autostar Suite software allows autoguiding and control of Meade Autostar operated telescopes and image processing once your images have been captured! For more details visit
www.meade.com/autostar/index.html
I purchase something similar (Meade DSI-1) to use with my 10" dob, and had lots of fun just learning the basics of astrophotography (snapping the moon, planets, some bright clusters, and star trails around the South pole). My logic was to learn/play with basic astrophotography before maybe deciding to part with some serious hard earned $ down the track (eg. LX200, heavy EQ mount, etc).
Hope this helps.