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Originally Posted by Poita
I could probably spare my QHY8 for a week if you want to try it out, in about 3 weeks time or so.
It seems to laugh at LP for some reason, and is effectively noise free. I can't imagine living without it, I love the stupid square thing.
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Wow, thanks Peter, what an offer! I could even probably kill two birds with one stone and come for a drive to get some time for my son's L Plates and pick it up. I assume from being 183km away and in NSW country that you are somewhere near Bathurst? A nice drive in the country for father and son, thats of course if you dont mind visitors....?
Cheers
Chris
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Originally Posted by RobF
I love the oversampling I get with the QHY9 on my F5 8" Chris, but really it's overkill except in the very best of nights. QHY8L very convenient to use and so many people get great images from them. Be interesting to see what people say though.
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Hey Rob......dont tempt me, the QHY9 on Gama is showing as $1650 for the OSC version.....6MP vs 8.3MP......hmmmmm that was my other droolworthy choice as I have seen some very nice images here with QHY9 and 10's.....
Either way, I am probably going to have to wait a bit for the funds as I need to either whack the boss to pay me a bonus thats due, or wait till my boat sells for the cash...I was going to build an observatory with the boat money, but I think a better camera is on the cards first before a permanent structure is built to house the scope....just in case....and if I get my bonus AND sell the boat, then, well, obs AND QHY....look OUT!
Therefore the timing of Peter's offer is excellent, it will allow me to try before I buy and the QHY is probably the preferred option, as long as the arcsec per pixel is AOK for my scope...
Cheers
Chris