
15-04-2008, 05:52 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Sydney
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Hi Nifty and welcome. I can recommend GStar for someone who is just starting Astrophotography. It is very easy to use, you will get live view (with 2.5 seconds delay on maximum sensitivity) and you will see 3 magnitudes deeper with it then you would see with eyepiece. It also got ½” CCD chip that gives you much wider field of view then web cameras with their ¼” chip. I got two GStars, one is fixed in meteor capture setup and other I use for imagining. I have also webcam and Meade DSI Pro but use GStar most of the time. I would suggest to get 0.63 focal reducer for your LX200 because at 2000mm focal length you may find field of view too narrow and tracking difficult. You can add wedge later on if the imagining game really bites you.
Have look on http://www.myastroshop.com.au to see what can be achieved with this camera, but don’t expect to produce same quality images straight away.
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