Re: (ATMoB:Discuss) Question for the CCD'ers

• To: Daniel Feldkhun <delf (a) MIT.EDU>
• Subject: Re: (ATMoB:Discuss) Question for the CCD'ers
• From: Lew Gramer <dedalus (a) latrade dot com>
• Date: Mon, 03 Dec 2001 18:25:00 -0500
• Cc: Michael Carnes <moogiebird (a) earthlink dawt net>, ATMOB Discussion List <atmob-discuss (a) atmob daht org>
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>BTW, I hope you are not thinking of getting a digital camera with astronomy
>in mind.  Although they are great tools and are a lot of fun to use (I love
>my Coolpix 885), they are not suitable for low-light imaging.  You can
>attach one to your eyepiece to image planets, but most of them won't allow
>long exposures necessary for deep sky imaging and those that do will
>produce increasingly noisy images if you expose for more than a few seconds.

Note that I am sure Dan's statement above is entirely correct - except that I
think he meant to say, "they are not suitable for low-light imaging... UNLESS
you couple them with an image intensifier - which is in fact the standard
configuration for doing video meteor imaging, for example..." ;>

Clear skies,
Lew Gramer

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