Atik Cameras

toryglen-boy (Duncan) · #1 27-08-2009, 10:47 AM

Howdy

been looking at these on Andrews, has anyone used them? they seem good quality, but $2200 for only 1390*1040 seems a bit pricey to me

can anyone comment on them?

thanks

dpastern (Dave Pastern) · #2 27-08-2009, 10:56 AM

They have a good rep...interested in them myself.

Dave

renormalised (Carl) · #3 27-08-2009, 10:58 AM

For that much money, I'd rather pay $300 more and get a 6MP Orion Starshoot Pro. 1.44MP v 6MP...no contest.

toryglen-boy (Duncan) · #4 27-08-2009, 11:00 AM

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Originally Posted by renormalised

For that much money, I'd rather pay $300 more and get a 6MP Orion Starshoot Pro. 1.44MP v 6MP...no contest.

actually, if you order the Orion SSP II from Optcorp in the states, it works out to be $1700

[1ponders] (Paul) · #5 27-08-2009, 11:01 AM

I had an ATiK 16IC and it was a great little camera. Sorry I sold it now. It only had a small chip, and the TEC wasn't regulated, but it was a great little performer.

renormalised (Carl) · #6 27-08-2009, 11:05 AM

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Originally Posted by toryglen-boy

actually, if you order the Orion SSP II from Optcorp in the states, it works out to be $1700

Well, there you go....why give Bintel all that money when it's cheaper at Optcorp

toryglen-boy (Duncan) · #7 27-08-2009, 11:06 AM

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Originally Posted by [1ponders]

I had an ATiK 16IC and it was a great little camera. Sorry I sold it now. It only had a small chip, and the TEC wasn't regulated, but it was a great little performer.

Paul, you got any images you took with it, so we can see what its like?

toryglen-boy (Duncan) · #8 27-08-2009, 11:10 AM

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Originally Posted by renormalised

Well, there you go....why give Bintel all that money when it's cheaper at Optcorp

yeah, $800 difference is quite a hike

mithrandir (Andrew) · #9 27-08-2009, 09:57 PM

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Originally Posted by toryglen-boy

Paul, you got any images you took with it, so we can see what its like?

I don't know about Paul. Jan is well known on the Atik yahoo group. He has a 16ic. This is his web site http://www.thefirmament.nl

I have a 16ic I plan to use as a guide camera and get a 314L+ for imaging.

[1ponders] (Paul) · #10 28-08-2009, 11:48 AM

I'll see what I can dig up. It's been a while.

[1ponders] (Paul) · #11 28-08-2009, 11:56 AM

I'm sure I've got some other somewhere, but these are quick at hand. A quick mono Jewel Box and my first RGB (ignore the colour and processing

) of the Glob in Corona Australis

toryglen-boy (Duncan) · #12 28-08-2009, 12:22 PM

thanks mate, its appreciated.

Hagar (Doug) · #13 28-08-2009, 01:00 PM

Why not look at the QHY range of cameras? Very well priced and very good performers. QHY8 $2500 8MP OSC.

http://web.aanet.com.au/gama

[1ponders] (Paul) · #14 28-08-2009, 01:15 PM

For what it's worth, here's the linearity and transfer curves for the 16IC. Measured as explained through Berry and Burnell's AIP4WIN. The last two are the dark current graph and the spectral sensitivity.

toryglen-boy (Duncan) · #15 28-08-2009, 01:57 PM

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Originally Posted by Hagar

Why not look at the QHY range of cameras? Very well priced and very good performers. QHY8 $2500 8MP OSC.

http://web.aanet.com.au/gama

Hi Doug

Yeah, i am looking at these to, the QHY8 OSC looks like a good performer, its just that there are alot of images and info on them online, but its harder to find info on the Atik stuff, so i thought i would ask here