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New guide camera

Started by fblue, 11/24/2010 04:16AM
Posted 11/24/2010 04:16AM | Edited 11/24/2010 04:17AM Opening Post
Well, I finally decided to upgrade my guide camera and was looking in to all the possible choices.

It came down to one with a Sony CCD chip, I like their low noise. There were a few to choose from, but only one that had TEC cooling as well as the ability to control it with CCDAutoPilot and had a reasonable cost. I decided on the ATIK Titan Mono camera/autoguider. It has a 659 x 494 array of 7.4u pixels with 5e read noise. The camera is pretty sensitive and should work well with my guide setup, cost $579, not that bad!

I will post what I think when I get a chance to test it.
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