Astrophotography digital-camera recommendations?

"Orion" wrote in message
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I have been shopping for a good digital camera for astrophotography. I
have
found that in general CCD is the way to go over CMOS because CCD produces
less noise for the longer shutter speeds needed for deep-sky photography.

You don't really need long exposures these days. Many people use software
(such as MaximDL) to integrate groups of 30" - 90" exposures with a great
deal of success. This also enables you to be more tolerant of alignment / PE
/ tracking errors that cause more problems the longer the exposure is. Also
when imaging from a city location, this also helps you drop exposures spoilt
by airplane lights that would make 1 hr+ exposures pretty much impossible
(apart from the light pollution issue).

Can anyone recommend a good, reasonably priced, CCD Digital Camera for use
on a 10" LX200?

Given the quality of your 'scope, you ought to look at a quality camera. You
won't go wrong with something from the SBIG range, but whilst I would
describe them as reasonably priced for the quality you get, they certainly
aren't "cheap".

I use a ST8-E and still haven't explored the depths of the quality it can
give me.

Roger
UK