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The Lodestar is one I thought might be good.
Of course I also need to repair my ST402 so its power plug is more reliable. Probably easy enough to do and also to upgrade to a more
professional plug and jack system. It is a very sensitive camera.
Yes the 402 is sensitive and I have no trouble getting a guide star.
I found with it though darks make it worse not better. Not sure why.
The stars get fainter with darks not clearer. Strange, but that's what happens and always has with it.
I have had it where using autoselect has picked a hot pixel instead of a star. I get around that by using subframe and I frame the guide star I want in a smaller frame. That works well.
Is the Lodestar able to be controlled by CCDsoft?
I'd like to try out a Starlight Express camera. It is true the ST402 is very often used but that dependence on the computer is way out of date and often causes me a lot of trouble. The very slow connect also seems out of date whereas the FLI gear and Apogee connects instantly. I'd like it all at the same standard.
The Starfish wasn't too bad either. Sony chip. It was CMOS not CCD and capable of very fast downloads, internal buffer but the problem with that one was updating the driver was impossible with Vista and the driver it came with did an occassional freeze. Since been fixed.
Thanks for the advice so far.
Greg.
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