Hi all,

On a whim I bought a Sony Cybershot p93 whilst in Singapore the other
day. Well, you have to... don't you? This was intended just for
holiday snaps and stuff. Reading through the manual, though, I
discovered it can take shots of up to 30 seconds exposure - and it
does some kind of 'Noise Reduction' processing on the image. Neat.

So I took it out into the garden that night, laid it flat on it's back
and took a few shots.

Impressive results - it was picking up stars down to about mag 6 (and
this is in light polluted West London). I took some 5M pixel shots of
Hercules and it even managed to detect M13.

It takes about 20 seconds to do the processing after the image has
been captured - I guess it's doing some kind of dark frame subtraction
or something. Or perhaps there's a cut down version of Registax in
there!

Clever little camera. Now I've got the idea in my head of hooking it
up to the scope - but how to attach it? It has one of those 'pop out'
lenses that I could clamp to but it also has an auto power off which
folds it back up (and I can't seem to disable this feature). Wouldn't
want it trying to close the lense whilst clamped in the telescope.

Any ideas? Anybody else got one of these things?

Jeremy