ArmchairAstro

Thank you to everyone for some excellent suggestions. As you say, it's not as easy as it sounds. I have a Meade 6.3 reducer from my old 8" Meade but as it's a reducer / field flattener, I don't think it's compatible with the 10" ACF, please 'correct' me if I'm wrong... The ZWO cameras seem to be ubiquitous and one never knows if they are just flooding the marketplace in the hope that people will assume they are good so it's nice to see a recommendation for them. A quick word of consolation to The60mmKid: Isn't it always the way with Astronomy that we "didn't see what we'd hoped to see". 😉

Thank you. I'll have a look...

Hello, I'm new to this forum so I hope I'm in the right place. I'm hoping someone might have the answer to my question. I'm looking for a camera to take the place of an eyepiece on my 10" F10 SCT (2" optical back). In my youth I used to enjoy standing in the freezing cold with my eye frozen to the eyepiece, these days I'd rather the telescope does the freezing and I sit comfortably in front of the wood burner looking at a screen. Sacrilege I know but I'm old and creaky now. I don't want to take long exposures or keep any footage, I would just like the telescope to be the one outside in the cold and me the one inside in the warm looking at the laptop screen and seeing an image at least as good as if I were standing at the telescope using an eyepiece. What would you suggest? Is there such a device? Colour would be nice so I could use it for terrestrial viewing too (laptop upside down), but not necessarily a requirement. Thanks.