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Lunatiki
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Re: Firewire DFK 21AF04.AS vs. Lumenera Skynex 2-0
09/10/07 12:47 PM
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I'd like the thank everyone for answering my questions. Especially the ones I've been talking with in private. I just got off the phone with John at The Imaging Source. Very knowledgeable and nice guy. He said the DFK is suited best for terrestrial imaging and the DBK is certainly the way to go for planetary astrophotography. He said the DFK will certainly do OK with the planets, but would appear "pink" on the screen. I can use the IR-cut filter I have with the ToUcam. So he got me all set up with the cable, 6 pin to 4 pin, and the external power source. I changed laptops I'm buying. The one I'm getting now has the firewire plug and Windows Vista. As someone else pointed out in this thread, he said it will work fine with Vista. He also said they had been quite busy since Sean's S&T article. I realize most would still say the Lumenera is the way to go, and I do believe it too, but getting this camera allows me to upgrade from the ToUcam and get a new laptop for the price of the Lumenera alone, and still save hundreds. More than likely, I'll be buying again in 2009 during the Mars apparation and will seriously consider the Lumenera at that time. And, I did decide to go with the color instead of the monochrome, against the good advice of expert imagers in this forum for this reason... I like the results I've gotten from the ToUcam when I split the color channels. With good seeing, even fair - average seeing, it will pick up blue-ice clouds, orographic clouds and structure of the NPH, while the Red will cut through these clouds and show the albedo features on the surface. That is what I'm intersted in and need, and the easiest way to get that was with the color and not the monochrome. But I do know sometime in the future I'll give monochrome a try. Thanks again to all..........
Joel
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Celestron NexStar 8i SCT
DBK 21AF04.AS
K3ccd/Registax4/PSP8
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