For all you guys out there looking for the best way to start astroimaging I have an answer.
This should stir up a hornets nest but I think this system is the best bang for your buck for astroimaging. Note I'm not saying it's the cheapest, and it's certainly not the absolute best but very capable (of long, guided exposures, mainly I guess) and within most people's budget.
For me I never felt like I was going anywhere with my imaging until I got my SBIG St2000xcm and started autoguiding.
Used sbig $2000 (bigger better chip than the $600-$1500 cams and a great self guider.)
LXD75 mount $400 (or similar Celestron)
Celestron ed80 $350 (same as Orion 80ed or Skywatcher 80ed)
Meade APM to connect SBIG to LXD75 to guide $50.
Who doesn't have some kind of computer these days to hook it up to? $0
Total $2800
M33 3x15 minute exposures but I can do 20-30 minute exposures with that cheapo setup. No drift alignment either. Polar scope only, but you gotta center that thing first EVERY time.
Hey guys, don't take me too seriously cause I'm still pretty much a lurking newby and I don't know squat, but it's almost friday and I'm in a playful mood. So let me have it!
Thanks
Henry Palan (now banned for life)
This should stir up a hornets nest but I think this system is the best bang for your buck for astroimaging. Note I'm not saying it's the cheapest, and it's certainly not the absolute best but very capable (of long, guided exposures, mainly I guess) and within most people's budget.
For me I never felt like I was going anywhere with my imaging until I got my SBIG St2000xcm and started autoguiding.
Used sbig $2000 (bigger better chip than the $600-$1500 cams and a great self guider.)
LXD75 mount $400 (or similar Celestron)
Celestron ed80 $350 (same as Orion 80ed or Skywatcher 80ed)
Meade APM to connect SBIG to LXD75 to guide $50.
Who doesn't have some kind of computer these days to hook it up to? $0
Total $2800
M33 3x15 minute exposures but I can do 20-30 minute exposures with that cheapo setup. No drift alignment either. Polar scope only, but you gotta center that thing first EVERY time.
Hey guys, don't take me too seriously cause I'm still pretty much a lurking newby and I don't know squat, but it's almost friday and I'm in a playful mood. So let me have it!
Thanks
Henry Palan (now banned for life)
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