The full moon makes it hard to give a full assessment. This one came
from Starzonia. I have assured by the owner of the company that makes it
that the frosting problem has been fixed.

Rick Johnson wrote:


That's an interesting new camera. I've seen some good stuff taken with
it on other forums. Did you get the CCD-Labs version or the Starzonia
version. Seems to be a big debate on which is better that boils down to
very little difference that I can see. CCD-Labs uses argon and
Starzonia uses dry nitrogen to fill the CCD chamber to prevent frost. I
see no difference in the images though argon has better thermal
properties if I recall my chemistry days correctly. Don't think the
difference material however.

I guess I'd like to see thermal control rather than just running at -45C
below ambient or whatever it achieves. Though its dark current is
extremely low so that doesn't appear a big issue. Most don't even use
darks, just hot pixel removal.

So after one image how do you like it?

Rick


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