I have for sale an old monochrome SBIG ST-8300 camera, complete with 8-position filter wheel and focal-reducing OAG, plus filters. $1000 + postage (or offer what you think it's worth and I'll have a think about it). Keen to move it on to somebody who will use it.
PMs please.
The camera is in very good condition with everything working perfectly. The chip does not fog up when cooled. Comes with robust Pelican case (which doesn't take the camera when the filter wheel and OAG are mounted on the camera - subtle design and marketing flaw from SBIG), power supply (OZ lead), 2-inch nosepiece, USB cable, guiding cable (does anybody still use these?) manuals, and all the other bits that came with the camera. Everything you need to start imaging (except a guider camera for the OAG - and I can provide one of those too, if you need one).
The filters are Baader red, green & blue (for tri-colour imaging), and a Baader [O III] filter (8.5nm). Also H-alpha (4.5nm) and [S II] (also 4.5nm) from Custom Scientific (CS used to be the only place you could buy these filters from before they became popular and everybody started making them). The filters are all 1.25-inch mounted, so these will cause minor vignetting for imaging systems faster than about f/6 - nothing that can't be flat-fielded out. (The camera was used with an f/8 RC with no problems.)
I know these old CCD cameras don't sell well compared to the new CMOS chips, but the 8300 chip is still quite large (13.5 x 17.9mm), has larger pixels (5.4um) than most CMOS chips so better suited to longer focal length telescopes, and the camera has a shutter so you can do dark frames without mucking about. Have a think about this as a very cheap entry level camera.
