Re: ATM Building a CCD camera.

["Bill Prewitt" <bprewitt@neo.rr.com>]

The "CAM" of choice is probably the Philips Vesta Pro.
You can also get good results with an ordinary Hi-8 vidcam.
The qcuiag or videoastro  Yahoo Groups lists cover these two approaches.
Astrostack lets you autoregister and stack AVI or BMP frames and do basic image
processing
http://utopia.knoware.nl/users/rjstek/english/software/

Fine for planets, asteroids, or bright Messiers, but for long deep sky
exposures, you still need a cooled CCD camera.

         Bill Prewitt

My webpage of telescope making and caving
http://home.neo.rr.com/imaging

I also see a bit on using a quickcam to do the job.  Does this work?  Is there a
better version using any of the newer web cams?

  Sam