QHY soon to beta QHY miniCAM5s

[Chris]

Yeah I wonder what software support there is for this camera?

 

[Thalestris24]

The problem with it might be guiding it because of pixel scale, after all the cam is itself usually used for guiding. Using it unguided for video astro or short exposures should be ok

Louise

[Chris]

I see ZWO have some very interesting long exposure CMOS offerings also. 

I'm using basic driven EQ3, so I'm quite intrigued by these high QE cameras which might enable recognisable results with short exposures

 

[russp]

Seems the minicam has an Ascom driver so should be supported by most software via that. 

 

[Chris]

That's good to hear  

I've just been looking at the chip specs for the minicam5, and it has the same chip as the well regarded ZWO ASI120M, albeit with a 2 stage Peltier tec cooling system and heated circuit to prevent fogging. Very cool! (no pun intended).

http://www.365astronomy.com/ZWO-ASI120MM-Monochrome-1-3-CMOS-USB2.0-Camera-with-Autoguider-Port.html

There's been some interesting DSO imaging going on involving these little CMOS sensors over on the Cloudy Nights forum.  

 

 

[zicklurky]

ZWO have released some cooled CMOS sensors as well. I saw a thread on Cloudy Nights with someone's results with one of those, they were pretty good, definitely interesting. However the ZWO ones are around £700-800 I think, and at that price I'd rather get an Atik 414 for a little more.