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Pscammp

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  1. Hi All, I'm hoping for a little good advice here as i'm in the market fairly soon for a new Camera. I use a Revelation 10 inch newt from 'The Telescope House' with a QHY8L at the moment and although i'm quite happy with my results generally I am looking to upgrade my 8L with one which will allow me to resolve more detail in my images. I assume the resolution will need to increase and pixel size will have to get smaller than 7.8u to get more detail. I would like to stick with an OSC as my time under the stars is somewhat limited and would really have the time or patience for Mono Camera's etc. Has to be Cooled too Has anyone got any suggestions for a camera, I have not got an unlimited budget so the cost will have to be within reason but im prepared to consider most. So.....What Camera and why ?? Many Thanks Paul
  2. Hello all, I'm hoping to get a little help and advice here if anyone can help ! I have a 10" Newtonian which I modified by attaching a CR2 2inch Moonlite Focuser to it. It has the Hi Res stepper motor on it and the Mini V2 controller which is hooked up to my PC via ASCOM and I use Sequence Generator Pro for image capture and auto focusing. My camera is a QHY8L for the sake of full clarity and I have to drag it all outside every time I want to do some imaging. In the medium future (due to a house move) I am planning an Observatory build in my new back garden/yard which will be positioned probably about 60 feet from the house. Everything works great at the moment for a 'Mobile' setup just outside our current conservatory on the patio but when this Observatory build goes ahead in the future I can see a very large problem developing due to the proximity of the Obs. Currently, I use auto focus which is great but if I use SGP's framing and mosaic tool to frame an image and need to rotate the camera I just pop outside the conservatory to manually rotate the camera in the focuser (guessing) based on how much SGP tells me to and in which direction. Sometimes I get it within the allowed tolerance and other times I have to pop out 3 or 4 times to get it right. This is not so much of a problem NOW but imagine having to run 60 feet each time....... Not Good 🤪 So, somehow I need to come up with a way of having Motor Rotation as well as motor focusing ! ! ! ! I have looked at the Moonlite focusers website but only see a rotator option for refractors and SCT's Is it possible to somehow convert my CR2 to also rotate the camera also on my Newt ?.....Has anyone done this already ? .....Any video's anywhere cos I cant find any ? Any Help would be gratefully appreciated Many Regards Paul
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