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Originally Posted by gregbradley
Holy Cow Stuart that is a gorgeous image! 
That is a seriously good image with fabulous sharpness and resolution and terrific colour and depth.
You must be stoked. I wondered how ASA scopes were these days after Mikes debacle with one. Do you think the focuser would handle a heavier 16803 chipped camera? The 8300 seems very well matched to it.
Greg. |
Hi All,
Thanks for the kind comments.
Yeah, I was quite worried until I finally got some images out of the scope. I had some problems with ASA, they made the wrong adapter for the camera, but the information on the Sbig website was not correct, so it wasn't to bad. They did take three months to replace it, even then it was still wrong. I got one from Precise parts in the US in about a week. A fortnight after that I got an email from their distributor in Aus that the adapter had arrived, after we had cancelled it. So there are still ASA eccentricities to deal with.
Having said all that, I was after images like this, so I'd have to say that I'm happy so far. The fact that they have a distributor in Aus was the reason I went ASA vs Orion Optics at the time, but that's a moot point now as both have Aus distributors.
I chose the 8300 based camera because I have had scopes that are supposed to cover the big sensors and have had lots of trouble with them. Sometimes the devil is in the fine print, conditions have to be perfect for the coverage to be flat, so a smaller chipped camera easily fits into the field of the scope. Also the scope/camera combo images at 1"/pixel.
Cheers
Stuart