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guider/camera recommendation please

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OK, by now you know that I despise the QHY5 CCD. So I'm after something different.
Based on your experience, please recommend me a guider camera and guider scope.
The camera has too work 100% perfectly each time under Indi, and it must not cost thousands of $$$ (if you know what I mean)

thanks all
5 years 3 months ago #32812

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I have been uisng an ASI120MC-S (USB3 version, very important as the USB2 version does NOT work) for over a year now and it has NEVER failed me. I use simple 50 mm (on one mount) and 60 mm (on my other mount) finder scope. The 60 mm finder is manufactured by ZWO as well.

www.teleskop-express.de/shop/product_inf...Helical-Focuser.html

This combination works so well for me that I bought it as well for our local astronomy club.


Clear skies, Wouter
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I'm using a lodestar x2. Its fantastic. Low noise, very sensitive, works perfect with INDI+ekos. It was a little expensive but it has been worth it for the reliability.
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Just looked up the cost of this camera... ouch...
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Hi
I have an old usb2 asi120mm and it's clone the Datyson t7m:
www.aliexpress.com/item/T7C-T7M-Astro-Ca...71-ad7b-e67f0dbff65d

The latter I'd recommend because of it's shape; it fits into helical eyepiece holders with or without oags. Both work reliably with indi and phd2
HTH
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I also believe I need to move away from the rings, the guider must be properly secure and mounted inline of the telescope.
ie: no messing about, no need to adjust it etc...
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I'm curious as to why chosing a color camera for guiding. Won't you give up some sensitivity? What about this one, instead, which is even on sale: www.teleskop-express.de/shop/product_inf...tive-Autoguider.html

EDIT: never mind, it's an older USB2.0 model, so probably that's why...
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You won’t lose resolution since the images are treated as grayscale so each pixel counts. No debayering is applied when guiding. The colour version is cheaper than the B/W version. And the ASI120MM mini is a USB2 camera and I don’t know if that works properly on Linux since I know from my own experience that the ASI120MC doesn’t work. The question was to do a recommendation based on experience, which I what I did :)
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The old zwo's need this firmware:
drive.google.com/open?id=1eXBCN06Uz6pGdf-TDd_8ETVW5QRw9zSO
The new usb2 zwos just work.
HTH
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OK thanks for that info. I tried the new firmware on the old USB2 camera and never got it to work. Yes, I did use the compatible version of the firmware ;)
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Ah, OK. Dunno. I have the 120mm and the Datyson clone, the t7m. Both work out of the box with usb2. If you want to use a usb3 socket only then do you have to upgrade the firmware. Maybe something to do with the colour versions? HTH.
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