Yeh I don't really do reviews as such .. no head to head comparisons or insights, or paid editorial. If it's something I'll play with I'll play with it :)
This camera could go well in a small refractor, like the Evoguide 50 ED, or the Redcat 51. Sensor is a bit small, but for zoomed in live stacking, as you showed it, must be a fun to use. Or for solar, with a small coronado or a lunt!!
@sjpp71, I am running over the idea of getting this camera to tryout with my Redcat 51, Has anyone out there used this combination? Thanks in advance!!!
You can do a neat guiding trick with a color camera with tiny pixels. Bin 2x2 and shut off the blue pixels. The shorter wavelength (blue) light is more affected by seeing than the longer wavelength light. You lose a little light... but your guiding might be better... in theory.
Hi Dylan, I now have this camera and I love it so far! I had to update the firmware to Beta Ver. 20230509 to fix the pixel size. I put this on my RASA 8 and was able to capture the dumbbell nebula up close with good detail! Not bad for a planetary camera!
Hey Dylan….not only did I learn from you that I don’t want and observatory, I also learned from you that I should remain a visual observer! However, I do occasionally try to take pretty pictures of the Moon with my SkyWatcher 120mm Ed Pro and my C11 on my Losmandy G11 mount using and older Canon EOS Rebel XS digital camera. I figure in about 5 years I will either get an easy dedicated cheap camera for this or if I am dead I will save some funds to past on to my children. BTW your editing in this video was excellent. Keep up the great work and get better soon. Cheers -Greg
Hah! Thanks for noticing Greg... the edit on this video was more complicated than normal. Still testing positive today .. hopefully I can leave the house tomorrow!
G'day mate, love your videos! I have been using a 50mm Orion Guide Scope with an ASI120MM on top on my Bintel 200mm reflector..... You will still need the finder scope I have found out, helps to beable to do the both eyes open with one looking thru finder scope and the other looking at your target.
LMAO 🤣.... I had the Same Idea using my Old ASI224MC on my SV165 as a Digital Finder/makeshift Widefield Imager/ Guider on My C5 Rig....LOL...Awesome Video....Sorry you got Covid...That sucks, but I'm glad your not having adverse symptoms....Look forward to the Next Video Dylan.....Clear Skies!
This video just might have sealed the decision to finally upgrade my guide camera from the old QHY 5III LM with the constant USB disconnect issue but then I need to upgrade my guide scope too. Originally I was thinking of just getting the 174m but maybe I will go for one of the newer planetary camera instead
Same.. I've been waiting years to upgrade because the ASI120mm was so solid. No disconnects or dropped frames on this camera and I ran it for hours and hours.
@@DylanODonnell I've been running my QHY 5IILM an the QHY mini guide scope for years now. But I need to get that disconnect thing solved before I offer my northern skies to you or Caleb remotely 😉
Okay Dylan, you need to put 715 camera on your RASA 11! I know the full well depth is puny but you would be amazed at how zoomed in you can get. I have a few posts on SM that show what can be done with small pixels on a RASA 8. Dude thanks so much for the video! QHY reached out to me I thought they were going to send me one but instead told me I had to wait like everyone else 😞 Guess I am not on the right side of the planet to get one yet 😕 Anyway's mate put that thing on your RASA and watch magic happen! Clear Skies!
@@DylanODonnell Update, AgenaAstro just got a batch so I bought one! Hope to do a comparison on SMedia between this 715 and my frakencamera on my RASA 8 when I get a chance. Damn I need to start doing RU-vid videos 😛 Oh and dude I hope you feel better, stupid c-o-v-i-d is still annoying 😞
I think you're right with distortion on an edge or side but the 3 reasons (colour cam, small pixels, poor seeing) still hold as main contributors to the overall quality of that particular shot.
I'd love to see how it works on your 11" Edge HD. I have the 8" version where I use the SCOPS OAG. Because I'm like you, I prefer to work from the comfort of my desk. And it really annoys me when I have to go out and unplug and plug in my camera or focuser. But the SCOPS OAG does have an auto focus and i love it. Saves me a lot of time. So as my focus changes over the night as the temp cools off, I can adjust my OAG quite easily to bring it into focus. So yes, I'd love to see this on an OAG using your 11" Edge HD. ;o)
Can you get a wider opening for you observatory? With your guide scope so far out, how do you manage moving the dome to match both your scope and your guide scope? My wife wants me to get an observatory, but I just can’t do it.
Yeh ignore that janky setup .. a better way would be a closer adjustable guide mount. Then the observatory dome opening size and chasing precision is more forgiving.
Nice camera. What's that song called that you had playing towards the last part of the video. Shazam is coming up with everything from samba tunes to hardcore gangsta rap!
Really nice isn't it? Actually just from a stock library .. reminds me of Jean Michel Jarre ... link : www dot storyblocks dot com/audio/stock/neutron-star-st5iozxg_klimg7bd.html
You can use the calculator to compare them but once binned you get effectively 3um pixels on the qhy 715 and assuming it’s overall sensitively is better it should be a better camera. The ability to switch to colour just to look through your guidescope in colour is just a bonus :)
Hey there! looks like a really awesome camera but I have some big doubts about it with my setup... If I have a lens (not a telescope) 600mm with 95mm diameter, using the Bintel simulator it says my resolution would be 0.5" per pixel or even 0.25" per pixel if I use a Barlow 2x, but my dawes limit is only 1.22 arcsecs due my "narrow" lens. Do you think if I do lucky imaging for moon and planetary only I could get the most of this camera/lens setup? or would it be totally oversampled and deliver the same quality (or worse) than with a 462c? that one calculates 1" per pixel... Hope you can help me clarifying this!! and thanks!
Oversampling is normal for planetary and some data beyond the Dawes limit is inferred from drizzling, and also remember there is colour separation per pixel so every colour pixel is at least two pixels away from the next one. I believe the high resolution of this cam negates the need to use a Barlow too.
“Thanks vaccine” 😂 - What would this camera look like when it’s not on a cheap telescope that has a terrible FWHM, or a telescope that oversamples? Like a 600mm triplet or something
You got Covid all over that gear! Those surfaces are mostly steel, it's gonna stay there for a month! I think it's mutating in your hair right now! Oh, man, my throat ganglion is gonna swell up all over again! Now, I trust you wouldn't take my joke that way and rub lens cleaner all over that equipment, maybe use a scorching hair dryer on it, too!
So this is how it ends? Cant say i felt that you put your self ''into it'' as you have earlier.... how many beers do you need to keep it up? or vacsines? I'm in non sense a written lingustic from norway, so pardon my colonial english, clear skies!
Moon really is a lame name. It’s so generic. If we renamed it Disney more people would encourage us to go back. It’s early. I wouldn’t pass a drug test before coffee and I’m clean. The hell was this video about? Clear skies.
