[gregbradley]

Yes that is not cropped.

Yes that is the reasoning for both the BRC250 and the AP140 but I think APO images are often more pleasing than compound scopes so I also really want to explore the AP.

I would generally image a galaxy with the BRC with its aperture also its F5 fast speed.

That AP looks magnificent with all its gear on it. Quite an impressive lookign scope. I'll have to take a photo of it next trip and post it. An incredible piece of gear where everything is super solid and works flawlessly.

This camera seems to be extremely sensitive, possibly even more sensitive than the Apogee. When you get a just black background to an image which is practically noise free before you dark subtract then contrast is going to be really high which is good for picking up the really faint stuff.

So yeah, super low noise reasonably high QE, small pixels and smallish chip to get some image scale out of the BRC and AP for galaxies and other smallish objects.

I think I have become a FLI fan. The FLI PDF was awesome as well. I used to love the electronic focuser of the RCOS and this is very similar and it takes up very little room But it does mean I run 4 USB cables off my rig and 4 power supply cables. I may need to build or buy some sort of hub for power and USB to lighten the heavy cable load.

Any suggestions?

Greg.