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Old 15-09-2008, 05:28 AM
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Originally Posted by g__day View Post
Suggestion - other information that might be valuable if you can find it:

1. Cooling options - none, heat sink, heat sink + fan, piezoelectric + fan, water, vapour chill etc
2. Cooling options as standard, add on or after purchase 3rd party add on
3. Quantum efficiency (Q/E) of chip
4. Drivers (operating systems) supported (e.g Win XP, WinXP 64 bit, Vista, Linux, Mac OS)
5. Control software bundled (and whether its ASCOM supported)
6. Compatible 3rd party control software (e.g MaximDL, CCDSoft, Nebulosity etc)
7. Min and Maxim exposure times
8. What if any filter options it comes with (none, basic Infra red, advanced filters available as after purchase options).

etc
Great suggestions, cheers, g_day,

I'm not sure how to implement so many columns without the spreadsheet becoming enormous.
I suppose you could make, for example, the TEC heading have footnotes like
1 is single stage TEC cooling, 2 is 2 stage, 3 is etc etc.

I did think the next most important ones to expand on were exposure and software

Also, any other camera models immediately spring to mind that
I have left out?

Edit: Added some Starlight Express models

Paul: Zip file added..cheers

regards,
Steve B.

Last edited by kinetic; 15-09-2008 at 02:26 PM.
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