good ccd camera

Hi,

What astronomy ccd camera has the best cost-benefit ratio ?


Thanks,

Andre

hi,

a good price on a very good camera see this add:

http://www.astromart.com/classifieds/details.asp?classified_id=287428

clear skies,


Larry citro

I'd reccomend getting Ron Wodaski's book first. Having said that, a used ST7 Parallel version for about $1000 would be great to start with. You will find that the real challange is learning how to focus, track, auto-guide and polar align will be the real issues. With this camera you will be able to learn/do all of that and still take some nice images...
My 2 cents,
Chris Woodruff

Hi Andre,

The SAC line is a pretty good "bang for the buck". They have 2 main cameras, the SAC7b is a one shot color based on a modified web cam. The SAC8 is a supersensitive B&W imager based on a modified Sony security camera. Cost for the 7b is around $350, and for the 8 around $550. Only downside I have encountered with my SAC8 is that it is only an 8-bit device vs 16-bit for most of the others. I have been able to mostly overcome this limitation in post-processing.

You can check-out some images from the SAC8 on my website, as well as go through several other people's web pages through the web ring. Also, there are a bunch of SAC camera images from both cameras at: http://www.vela.net/Gallery/

Hope this is helpful

John Theodossy
http://geocities.com/myastrostuff/