Scope is a small 70mm f/6 refractor. Ikharos 70 ED
It is strange to see so much with such a small telescope! But fun...


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Posted 27 January 2013 - 11:15 PM
The Sony icx672/673 sensors ( although 1/3" ) are more sensitive than any Sony 1/2" CCD , due to being their latest generation technology. Because of this, there are no new CCTV cameras with 1/2" Sony sensors .Anyone tried a cheap-ish camera with x1024 (20.4 seconds integration time @625 lines output, or 17 seconds @525 lines) with 1/2" sensor instead of 1/3" ?
Would like to get a wider view with 8" @F3.3 but without the IMHO huge expense of Mallincam.
BTW MUST be remote control capable.
Cheers,
Alistair G.
Posted 28 January 2013 - 01:50 AM
Posted 28 January 2013 - 11:11 AM
And a lot of folks are waiting with baited breath on those 2400+mv 1/2 and 2/3" sensors.The Sony icx672/673 sensors (although 1/3") are more sensitive than any Sony 1/2" CCD, due to being their latest generation technology. Because of this, there are no new CCTV cameras with 1/2" Sony sensors .
Posted 28 January 2013 - 06:45 PM
... how much is the cheapest 2/3" format CCTV camera? ...
Posted 29 January 2013 - 12:23 AM
Posted 29 January 2013 - 08:34 AM
Posted 29 January 2013 - 04:18 PM
I accept that is true for CCTV applications for PAL and NTSC video, after trying a search for them, but a quick visit to the Sony Broadcast and Professional website shows quite a few 2/3" CCD camcorders (still tape based HDCAM, and XDCAM which is optical disc based!). The technology is called "Power HAD". I wonder what the sensitivity of them is like compared to the ICX672 / 3 ?
http://www.sony.co.u...w-650p/overview
Also found this ;-
http://www.jencam.de...F2/5B9A/D911...
Cheers,
Alistair G.
Posted 01 February 2013 - 08:48 AM
Posted 01 February 2013 - 01:32 PM
The Lntech camera at the link you posted is _not_ another version of the camera . It is a different camera using a different simpler DSP , RJ8 , which does not support sense up.I see where there is also a bullet version of the camera:
http://www.aliexpres...CCD-II-700TV...
While I don't have this camera in a bullet model, I do have a similar one from another supplier (650TVL SONY Super HAD CCD II, 0.001 Lux Sense-up x512 Starlight, & 1024x electronic shutter).
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Posted 02 February 2013 - 12:38 AM
That's a good idea .Sorry about saying the cameras were the same. I saw bullet posted on the Macro-Snowball site and jumped to the wrong conclusion.
The bullet I have is:
http://www.securityc...VL-Starlight...
While the manual doesn't say it, it does have 1024x electronic shutter, x512 sense-up, but only low/medium/high AGC. I won't say that the camera is fully
tested. I've had it for a month and have only seen the output on an LCD TV.
Here's a pic of the camera, .5x focal reducer, adapter, and flip mirror on my 12" collapsible SkyWatcher dob.
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I apologize for the multiple posts. I only posted one message during a time the forum server was apparently very sluggish. The forum window went blank and stopped responding or was waiting for the server . I closed the window. I saw now that it had posted 6 or 7 copies of the same msg at the same time .We understood the first time
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