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Old 23-10-2011, 09:03 AM
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Allan,

Seems to be decent scope. My collimation is still a bit off as per CCD Inspector. Moonlight will be a nice addition. I have a feathertouch 3.5 inch on mine with Robofocus. Seems like a solid imaging train but the QHY10 is not a real test as its pretty light.

QHy10 seems like a realy good OSC camera. Very low Dark noise. Very low readout noise. Measured mine at 6.9 e-. gets down to -30 with ease. Its a pretty decent size chip so will show any opitc issues very quickly.

As you can see with my CCDInspector attachement. The uncropped image has a lot more curvature.

I think the camera would be very well suited to a dark sky. I will be going back to Mono soon with LRGB, HA etc.... as I believe reesults better from light polluted suburb like mine. Guess we will find out.

I am new to ccd inspector. What kind of collimation numbers are reasonable to aim for ?
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