Moon/Planetary cam recommendations please

[JohnC]

As per title .

Looking for a good cam preferably sub £400 and in the ZWO range as I have chosen them as my main gear kit .

Will be used with the Skymax 127 Mak.

Many thanks in advance

Best regards

John

[PeterCPC]

ASI224.

[paul mc c]

224 mc... 

[callisto]

Thrice 224 👍

[barbulo]

ASI224

[JohnC]

Well seems pretty unanimous 🙂

Just ordered one from FLO.

Many thanks guys

 

[vlaiv]

Just to be different from the crowd - I'm going to say ASI385

Same QE and low read noise as ASI224 - but larger sensor which is a bonus for the Moon. It will take less panels to cover lunar disk.

[Vroobel]

I would say ASI678MC. Look please on this calculator:

https://www.astropix.com/html/astrophotography/astrophotography-calculators.html#cs

Taking an average seeing 4/5 into account the 2um pixel doesn't require any Barlow. 

 

Edited November 8, 2022 by Vroobel