Please help me decide on CCD camera

[mpeniak]

H guys,

I have never tried CCD imagining before with anything other than nextimage or toucam. I've always used DSLR for DSO's.

I would like to progress a small step farther and get a camera that has higher resolution than 640x480 and which works for both planetary imagining as well as DSOs.

I had a look at Atik Titan but I was not very impressed after reading the comments

Could someone please advise me? Also, is there a good planetary camera for about £500?

Cheers,

Martin

[Uranium235]

Imaging source cameras are probably your best bet for planetary. Bear in mind they arent cooled, so theyre not ideal for DSO work.

Imaging Source Cameras

Maybe you should step up a little more and get the Atik 320e, not too budget, not too pro - and it would probably make your dslr redundant at the same time

Or you could be patient and grab something 2nd hand (thats what I hope to do).

[NickH]

There's a HX516 which is a proper CCD for sale for not much money :-)

(in the buy and sell section)