Has anyone tried out Orion's new planetary camera with the larger 1/2" CMOS color chip? It sounds interesting but I'm not sure if the CMOS chips would work as well as CCD chips for planet work. They also claim it has 4 times the resolution of most cameras based on a 1.3 megapixels vs. the image size with a 640x480 chip. But would you have to also increase the size of the image on the chip to actually take advantage of the additional resolution, i.e.,use higher barlow power with this camera? And since you are capturing a larger image, would the capture software have to compress the image more to work at the same frame rates? Thanks.
John M.
John M.
