Just ordered an Atik

Hi all,

I'm excited...I just put in an order for the Atik 1HS-II camera. Can't wait to get it and use it! I ordered a Filter holder too. I'm wondering if I should have ordered a couple of extra filter trays so I can swap filters for RGB quickly.

This imaging is really getting more and more addictive every day.

Paul Maxson

Hi Paul,

I don't think you will regret it, thats the camera I use for my lunar imaging, like Damian said in another post its raw frames are much cleaner and it seems a bit more sensitive than the regular Toucam. I do wish sometimes though that it had a firewire or USB2 30fps framerate. My thinking is the bigger the stack is the more it will stand up to processing and be less noisy.
I wonder when one of the big CCD manufactuers will come up with a true quantum leap forward in video lunar/planetary imaging technology. Something along the lines of the Lumenera but better, are we that small a part of the astro imaging community? It seems we are being ignored except for a few small companies like Atik!!

--cheers and good seeing

Mike Wirths