Southpaw
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Reged: 12/30/03
Posts: 1894
Loc: Knoxville, TN
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I was wondering the same thing. My camera is a little different from Randy's. My QHY camera is using a Kodak KAF-6302CE which has 9um x 9um pixels.
He is probably looking at the unupdated website that has his old 3.3mp cooled camera.
Here is a pic of the front of my camera. This is the older style of QHY camera. I think he is or has devoloped a different case for the newer ones which looks much better. That is no 3mp ccd in there!
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16" f/4.5 Starfinder
8" f/6 Starfinder
Orion 80ED Moonlite CF1-s
Orion 80mm Guidescope
Meade 114/500 4.5" f/8
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Canon Rebel XT(unmodified)
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QHY 6302CE CCD
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Emanuele
Lord of the Ring
Reged: 11/19/03
Posts: 5652
Loc: Brescia-Italy, and Iowa-US
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Chad........
that chip looks like a ping pong table from here! 
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TEC MC200 F15.5
Astro-Physics Mach1GTO on Rob Miller TRI36L
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Ted W
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Fantastic results Randy!
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JanM
scholastic sledgehammer
Reged: 03/07/05
Posts: 754
Loc: Sheffield UK
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Glad you've finally gotten that chip in there chad.
Look forward to your first light.
Jan
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dennis_xuejing
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Hi Randy:
Your image is so amazing. I have seen them couple of week ago which QHY give me.But I think maybe you should process them again(including dark frame and flattening image).
Hope you are really enjoyed it.
I reprocessed your image based on your above image (.jpg format) as follows:
http://amateur.lamost.org/qhy/ccdbbs/attachment.php?s=2c14de74db016d7993687d3073c5775f&postid=1583
I hope you do not mind reprocessing your image.
Dennis
Edited by dennis_xuejing (09/10/06 09:41 PM)
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Emanuele
Lord of the Ring
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Dennis....
that is some very fine processing there! 
Have you seen QHY around? You should invite him over as there are some people interested in his cameras around here! (I for one)
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Backyard Skies
Astro-Physics 130EDF Gran Turismo
TEC MC200 F15.5
Astro-Physics Mach1GTO on Rob Miller TRI36L
Super Half Hitch on AP Wood Tripod
Baader/Zeiss Mark V
FLI ML8300 & CFW2-7 with Baader Filters
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QiuHY
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Reged: 04/19/04
Posts: 101
Loc: Beijing CHINA
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Hello,
Thank all and thank Randy specially for the great work on the first light for this camera.Please keep it on.
Recently I am busy on my Ph.D paper (will graduate soon) so there will be some delay on the upgrade of my website.There is many new stuff now.I will try to upgrade a part soon.
My old yahoo email box have meet some problem and always lost some emails recent days.So I just setup a new email box:
qhyccd@yahoo.com.cn
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QHY2 cooled CCD camera,QHY8 cooled big ccd camera(1.8inch 6.0mp).Some new small economical ccd (ICX259AL,ICX204AL,ICX429AL)camera is under development.
Edited by QiuHY (09/10/06 11:25 PM)
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jgraham
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Reged: 12/02/04
Posts: 11575
Loc: Dayton, Ohio
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QiuHY; Good luck with your dissertation. I just completed mine this past summer and received my diploma yesterday. Good luck with the new cameras as well.
"That's Doctor Evil, I didn't spend six years in evil medical school to be called Mister thank you very much."
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The best advice on imaging I've ever been given... don't forget to look! 
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Psion
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Reged: 04/27/05
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Loc: Czech Republic, Prague
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I am sorry I have over looked bad web pages (3.3Mpix camera). Does somebody have a new web pages about this camera?
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RandyD
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Reged: 06/06/05
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The camera comes with proprietary software from QHY. Qiu has written plugin for MaximDL also. I have included another color shot. It was a late shot of horsehead. 4 900 second exposures........ No darks.
Edited by RandyD (09/11/06 04:25 AM)
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Kim Miau
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Quote:
The camera comes with proprietary software from QHY. Qiu has written plugin for MaximDL also. I have included another color shot. It was a late shot of horsehead. 4 900 second exposures........ No darks.
Greeeeeaaaaat! I just can't describe this as it's totally out of my knowledge border! 
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Have access to...
Mewlon 300 + EM500
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And... bad weather.
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RandyD
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Reged: 06/06/05
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Norht american nebula, 10 600 second exposures, no darks. Taken with QHY8 and Tak Epsilon 130 in avg. seeing with freq. high clouds going by.....
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Psion
professor emeritus
Reged: 04/27/05
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Loc: Czech Republic, Prague
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Very nice pictures.
Randy, why did you use so long exposure? Has a camera problem with sensitivity? I have seen similar picture with 1500s exposure by the EOS 300D.
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Newton 200/800, 200/1200, 100/1000
Sky-Watcher ED80 + mount CG5 GT
PENTAX 75 SDHF, TEC 140-2011
Mount Celestron CGE
Meade LX200R 8" OTA
EOS 300Da, SBIG ST-402ME, SBIG ST-2000XM
Spectrograph SBIG DSS-7, LHIRES III
Mintron 12V1C-EX modif (amp off)
http://astroview.psionfired.com
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Emanuele
Lord of the Ring
Reged: 11/19/03
Posts: 5652
Loc: Brescia-Italy, and Iowa-US
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QHY is good to see you here in CN again. I understand you are a bit busy now, but that is good nonetheless! I lost track of you a while back!!
Anyway... I hope you'll keep us posted on those new CCD and any new products! We are surely waiting!!
Randy: great pictures there!
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Backyard Skies
Astro-Physics 130EDF Gran Turismo
TEC MC200 F15.5
Astro-Physics Mach1GTO on Rob Miller TRI36L
Super Half Hitch on AP Wood Tripod
Baader/Zeiss Mark V
FLI ML8300 & CFW2-7 with Baader Filters
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JanM
scholastic sledgehammer
Reged: 03/07/05
Posts: 754
Loc: Sheffield UK
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Here is my effort from saturday night. Not the best of conditions as it was cloudy and misty. The moon made things worse, but the camera picked up something in the 30sec subs i was using.
The horizontal streaking is because i have no shutter attached to the camera. Its a full frame 6303E ccd so the readout method it uses causes this.
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ccs_hello
Postmaster
Reged: 07/03/04
Posts: 5224
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JanM,
Can you verify that if right before the end of the exposure, cover the objective immediately then take the readout, will the image look different?
Clear Skies!
ccs_hello
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JanM
scholastic sledgehammer
Reged: 03/07/05
Posts: 754
Loc: Sheffield UK
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Yes, If you cover the objective right before the start of the exposure uncover it for the exposure, then recover it just before exposure ends no streaking is present. I have verified this, Dennis uses the same camera and he uses the above method i think.
The steaking is vericle but i have rotated the image.
Its just that for 30 sec subs its a lot of effort so did not bother. It was test picture as i am waiting for my AP900 mount. Chris my freind has let me borrow his losmandy GM-8 mount and it was the first night out with this.
Next time i will try longer exposures and be the manual shutter... hehehe
Will post the results.
Jan
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JanM
scholastic sledgehammer
Reged: 03/07/05
Posts: 754
Loc: Sheffield UK
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Here is a testing image with no uncovering and covering of the objective. Clearly shows the need for a shutter.
The QHY 8 ccd does not need a shutter as do the rest of the sony chips as they are not full frame like the 6303E is.
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mnaf
scholastic sledgehammer
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CONGRATULATIONS!!! (Dr. Evil!) 
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RandyD
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Reged: 06/06/05
Posts: 27
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Thanks everyone for the posts.....and thanks QHY for such a great camera.....I really appreciate the improved processing Dennis.....your great! I hope to get more time to image in the next few weeks. Hopefully practice and use will bring out even more great images from this camera. I really appreciate the time QHY took to write the Maxim plugin.....really a big help.
Later.....
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