USB CCD/camera with mobile/tablet?

[Adhyskonydh]

Has anyone made this work for astroimaging/photography?

I dont think lugging a PC around sounds very practical.

[michaelmorris]

If you get one of the new Windows tablets such as the HP stream 7 or Linx 7, 8 or 10 you'll get a full Windows 8.1 PC in the form of a tablet for between £75 and £150.  You could then run software such as APT to control the camera and a guide camera.

If you go down the Android route,  Then as long as your tablet supports USB host mode, you can use DSLR Controller app to control the a Canon DSLR

[Aeseir]

My advice (as i have set this up). Get a el cheapo laptop running windows 7 as a bare minimum. Mount it onto your platform and leave it there.

Use a tablet to remote into the said machine and voila you are set. Works beautifully for me. Plus i don't have to worry about processing power or ports and all that junk as the laptop already has everything.

I put shrink wrap around open ports and heat shrinked it to cover them up to prevent dew.

[DeanSL]

I've got the Linx 10 and have plugged in a borrowed Celestron Neximage. Using SharpCap it works fine, the only issue I have is using the touchscreen to move the Exposure slider, it's very fiddly.

[lensman57]

Get a laptop with at least 3 or 4 usb ports and get one of the cheap extended power batteries from the usual auction site. You'd be good for 3~ hours of imaging and all the AP software and drivers will function properly. There are enough uncontrollable variables in AP, you don't want to introduce more of your own.

A.G