As a amateurcan someone explain which I will need. A plain ccd camera or a camera autoguider I have just a teles ope with motors no go to stuff..I just want to.take planetary.pics mostly
ccd camera or autoguider
Started by bigdaddy692, 04/10/2011 12:09AM
Posted 04/10/2011 12:09AM
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Posted 04/10/2011 01:17AM
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Donald,
If you are sure you want to specialize in pictures of planets (not pictures of "planetaries"--deep space objects that look kinda like planets), then you probably want to look into video based cameras like those from Imaging Source and others. They may use CCD chips, or CMOS chips, but generally are not considered "ccd cameras." The term CCD cameras is usually reserved for long exposure deep space cameras.
I am suggesting the kind of cameras that capture a stream of video images of very short exposure (15-30 frames per second) which are later processed together into one still image.
You can use an autoguider with these, but autoguiding is not essential since the overall video stream only goes on for a minute or two at most--not enough time for your mount to mess things up.
Alex
If you are sure you want to specialize in pictures of planets (not pictures of "planetaries"--deep space objects that look kinda like planets), then you probably want to look into video based cameras like those from Imaging Source and others. They may use CCD chips, or CMOS chips, but generally are not considered "ccd cameras." The term CCD cameras is usually reserved for long exposure deep space cameras.
I am suggesting the kind of cameras that capture a stream of video images of very short exposure (15-30 frames per second) which are later processed together into one still image.
You can use an autoguider with these, but autoguiding is not essential since the overall video stream only goes on for a minute or two at most--not enough time for your mount to mess things up.
Alex
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