Re: [APML] CookBook TC245 or Pictor 216

[Michael Gartland <mgartlan@iconn.net>]

Here are some 216XT images....taken just for HaHa's....

http://members.iconn.net/~mgartlan/GalleryCCD.html

all were unguided....I now just use the 216XT as an autoguider.....which means
I need another auotguider if I want better guided 216XT images...<g>

m.

Tom & Lou Krajci wrote:

> From: "Blais Klucznik" <marbla@naisp.net>
>
> >             I am starting to gain an interest in CCD Astrophotography and
> am
> > wondering if anyone has any feel about the Barry "CookBook 245" Imager
> > versus the Meade 216XT imager?
> >
> >             I have been studying the CookBook circuitry and have read the
> > Meade literature on their 216XT and have a gut feeling that the 245 would
> > result in better images than the 216XT.....
>
> Check out what I've done with my CB245 from my patio at:
> http://members.3lefties.com/krajcit/  (OK, there's technical stuff there on
> how to optimize the camera, and examples of the science work I do, but some
> occasional pretty pictures with a small chip CCD.)
>
> I don't have any experience with the 216XT, and don't have any links or
> bookmarks to sites with lots of 216XT images.  (Does anyone have any
> bookmarks to sites of good 216XT images for comparison?)
>
> Hope this helps,
> Tom Krajci
>
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