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To find out a bit more about the new Superstar camera I had a bit of a look around the net as you would but with it being relatively new there wasn't much out there.
I next went to Claude at AEC the Aus importers and retailers and asked if he had received any feedback from customers as they have sold a few already but nothing there so he gave a name and email to Tarry Platt at Starlight EXpress in England.
I emailed Terry last night, Sat morning their time, and asked the question how the two (Lodestar & Superstar) compared in the real world given the apparent large difference in the specs. He was very quick to reply and said he would take some pictures and send them for me to compare.
Well they were waiting for me this morning when I got out of bed, that's service for you.
So three images here of M13 taken apparently under hazy sky's,
#1 is the Lodestar 1 sec exp unbinned
#2 is the Superstar 1 sec exp with 2x2 binning giving a similar resolution to the Lodestar
#3 is the Superstar 1 sec exp unbinned
Images one and two have been adjusted to show similar background noise levels to give a better comparison of stars actually detected.
Not sure what the noise on the left of the images is but it shows up the same from both camera's so I'm guessing it's something to do with his setup.
So having seen these and how clean the unbinned Superstar image is and still showing stars down to mag 11 or better I think I'll still go for the Superstar.
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