I bought my Qhy 2 pro from a fellow WSAAG member and IIS er who had used it a couple of times; I have used it about four or maybe five times since.
given the weather, the fact I have no permanent set up and have a QHY8, i just dont think i wil be using this all that much-I have no filter wheel.
I would like to sell it and am looking for $1550 plus postage (
not negotiable sorry). Comes with power supply and cables, you can download software from Theos's site.
http://web.aanet.com.au/gama/index.html
http://web.aanet.com.au/gama/qhy2%20Pro.html
It is a lot more sensitive in the H alpha then my QHY 8-but I recently changed the focuser on my scope and it no longer comes to focus so I need to invest in new extension tubes etc etc and I cant justify the spend to SWMBO-or for that matter myself since I already have a QHY 8
It has a fair bit of dust -as can be seen in flat fields - but I have got rid of it with flat fields. I never tried to clean it
Please let me know if anyone is interested (PM please)
this is a camera that in the right hands got an APOD so it is pretty good at what it can do-I just havent used it well enough myself.
Its a lot cheaper than a QHY 9 !
I just dont have the time or set up to extract the best out of this camera-plus I have an alternate astro expenditure I am chasing
I will post pix of the camera if any interest but its a QHY2 pro so the image of Theo's website is probably just as good. I got the software off Theo's website and thats what I'd recommend anyone who is interested do as well
here are a few of images taken -actually-the only images I took with this camera
and an ED80
http://www.flickr.com/photos/91784720@N00/3918618961/
click on all sizes to see the larger version
http://www.flickr.com/photos/9178472...78789/sizes/o/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/9178472...73960/sizes/o/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/9178472...23028/sizes/o/
the last two images were with a Lumicon Halpha filter Double stacked with an IR filter so not really represntative of what is possible with this camera (I did not have another 1.25 inch H alpha fllter)
thanks for looking
Narayan