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Originally Posted by Lester
Thanks David and Paul for your feedback.
I need to do some playing around with Registax. Oh thats right a camera for planetary photography; I was set on the Phillips Toucam but now I have read that the Lumenera LU075 is the way to go.  |
Hi Lester, the LU075 is a high end planetary camera with a High End price (near enough to $2000 with software). Bird (aka Anthony Wesley) uses the LU075 but now prefers a Dragonfly express firewire camera, with, I believ, an even heftier price tag. These are black and white cameras and to shoot colour you need coloured filters and filter wheels etc. I hope to go this path sometime soon, but it's not something I recommend to someone starting out in planetary imaging.
The Toucam is capable of incredible shots and while the LU075 may have the potential to exceed it isn't by much. I use the Celestron Neximager which is in effect a Celestron badged Toucam, identical chip etc. I'm very happy with it and would certainly recommend as a great beginner to intermediate webcam. COmes with the 1.25in barrel etc all included for ~$260AU.
cheers,