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Sparrow

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  1. KeithP - I've had much fun with my Meade LPI for lunar and Saturn images. It is what it says though - a lunar planetary imager. All but useless for Deep Sky imaging with a maximum exposure time of 15 seconds and very noisy subs at that.

    I'm now most definately down the DSLR route. As much as I'd like a dedicated Astro CCD the price is far too rich for me. My Canon 1000D cost £400 inclusing the 18-55mm lense. I've not had it modded. A useful point to add to MartinB's excellent thread is that the more recent Canons including the 1000D come with excellent bundled software which is perfectly good for DSO work. The live preview is useful when getting focus and the software can be set to take a chosen number of images at a chosen exposure length. Most settings can be adjusted on the camera from within the software.

    I've put my rig together over the last 18 months for DSO work and I reckon it probably cost about £1500 in total. This is for an 8" newt, CG5 GT mount, Skywatcher 80mm Star travel, Canon 1000D, power tank, LP clip filter and laptop computer plus various cables and bits and pieces. Hunting round for second hand stuff will cut this price tag down considerably.

  2. I'm so glad I read this thread. Having forgotten to charge my power tank for a few months earlier this year - you've guessed it - it wouldn't charge up and was almost flat. Having read this thread last night I went and connected the power tank to the car battery charger which has a deep cycle trickle charge. It's now fully charged and working great again. Thank goodness - thought I was going to have to blow my wife's bike tyres up the old fashioned way. I've now put a weekly reminder on our calender to charge it.

    BTW - din't need to dismantle the power tank - the jump leads on it connect directly to the battery so I was able to just hook the charger up to them.

  3. saw this in another closed thread by Steve from FLO

    "Apologies again to you and anyone else who has found our communication lacking. We grew too fast and were a bit late putting in a solution, but we are better now"

    If only all retailers could be this honest when there are problems - I think Steve and FLO are an example to all those retailers out there who make wishy washy excuses when things don't go smoothly.

    Well done Steve:)

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