Astro Camera
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Astro Camera
I want a make decision between ZWO 294mc, 533mc or
Explore Scientific Deep Sky 16MB or 26MB or even
Omegon 533 color, 16000 color.
Do you have any experiences?
Thanks a lot for your advices.
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Re: Astro Camera
Welcome to the Forum.
The cameras you listed are all good! It depends partly on what telescope you are going to use. What telescope have you got?
The ASI553 has a square sensor so produces square images rather than rectangular.
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Re: Astro Camera
Scopes: Explore Scientific ED80CF, Skywatcher 200 Quattro Imaging Newt, SeeStar S50 for EAA.
Mounts: Orion Atlas EQ-g mount & Skywatcher EQ5 Pro.
ZWO mini guider.
Image cameras: ZWO ASI1600 MM Cool, ZWO ASI533mc-Pro, ZWO ASI174mm-C (for use with my Quark chromosphere), ZWO ASI120MC
Filters: LRGB, Ha 7nm, O-III 7nm, S-II 7nm
Eyepieces: a few.
Primary software: Cartes du Ciel, N.I.N.A, StarTools V1.4.
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Re: Astro Camera
have a look at the
( please ignore the camera names in the image as the explore serries are not on the calculator yet, i have applied other simular matching cameras that use the same chips as the explore serries.)
ive included these.
red = asi 294 (IMX294C) (aps-c size)
yellow= asi 533 (Sony IMX533)
green= is the explore scientific 26mp (IMX571 chip)
teal =explore scientfic 16mp (Panasonic NM34230PLJ chip) ( same size as purple,can't be seen in the image too well)
purple= veTEC 16000 C Color (Panasonic MN34230) same chip as an asi1600v3 (4x3 size )
the veTEC 533 C Color is the same chip as yellow (asi 553) so i didn't add it to the list
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Thirds_system
https://astronomy.tools/calculators/fie ... messier=31
my opinion is that aps-c chips is about the max size i would use on a f4 newt , it just becomes to problematic to correct anything bigger like a full frame camera . i'm using the asi1600 it's a 4/3 size sensor which is slightly smaller then aps-c which is shown in the image above in the red box and the green box is an aps-c sensor size.
now we havn't talked about quantum efficiency which is the sensitivity of the camera and pixel scale ( arc seconds per pixel )
cameras : asi 1600mm-c/asi1600mm-c,asi120mc,prostar lp guidecam, nikkon d60, sony a7,asi 290 mm
mounts : eq6 pro/eq8/mesu 200 v2
filters : 2'' astronomik lp/badder lrgb h-a,sII,oIII,h-b,Baader Solar Continuum, chroma 3nm ha,sii,oiii,nii,rgb,lowglow,uv/ir,Thousand Oaks Solar Filter,1.25'' #47 violet,pro planet 742 ir,pro planet 807 ir,pro planet 642 bp ir.
extras : skywatcher f4 aplanatic cc, Baader MPCC MKIII Coma Corrector,Orion Field Flattener,zwo 1.25''adc.starlight maxi 2" 9x filter wheel,tele vue 2x barlow .
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