New Type of Fish

[kochu]

Hi all,


http://www.skyandtelescope.com/equipmen ... 75922.html

Kochu/15-6-07
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[Meng Lee]

Very similar to this:

http://qhyccd.com/QHY5.html

[Meng Lee]

The QHY is USD $150

The starfish is USD $995 !!

So how? The differences between the 2 is TEC and Software. So for those who wants to get into deep sky imaging, you need the autoguider. I may get the QHY for testing.

[boothee]

Hi Meng Lee,

I've been waiting for QHY5 for several months already. They are still in developing/testing stage and according to them CMOS chip sets are out of stock for the time being.

I'm dying to have that QHY5 for Planetary Imaging.


boothee

[Meng Lee]

Hi, boothee,

The guy just emailed me that thay got stock. And I saw your thread in QHY website and he wrote that they will receive stock. Hope there really is stock.

Otherwise you can consider this:

http://www.telescope.com/jump.jsp?itemI ... 844&KICKER

if you are doing just planetary.

[aquillae]

nice looking fish, i like the case

[Meng Lee]

Starfish now comes with a guider version, $300 cheaper.

Imagine looking for guide stars with a low noise 1.3MP sensor!

[Meng Lee]

By the way, I will be letting go of QHY5 very soon. It is exactly the same sensor but 4 times cheaper.

People interested in autoguiding and planetary imaging can PM me about QHY5, or even to reserve it. Thanks.

[rcj]

QGuide is using 1.3M sensor as well. Quite cheap!

http://www.ccd-labs.com/Qseries/qguide.htm

[Meng Lee]

hehe, they all come from Mr Qiu.

This website has all the drivers and software. And even vendor IDs are all included!

http://www.astrosoft.be/

By the way my QHY5 has been reprogramed to M42Optics vendor.