Which CCD camera

I recently purchased a Celestron 11inch GPS telescope and I am now looking
for a good CCD camera for a reasonable price.I checked out a few sites that
were selling the Starlight Xpress MX5.However they say it's "ideally suited
for use with small lenses and telescopes".Does this mean that it's not
suitable for larger telescopes and if so,why?.

Many thanks,

Gary

I use an MX5 with my 20 cm F10 SCT. The major challenge is indeed that
with the long f.l. at this f# you need a good mount and/or autoguider.
It does work nicely (with Barlow for f# = 20) for images of Saturn and
Jupiter. I got some reasonable images of M57 recently too.

I suggest very strongly that you use a program such as AstroArt to drive
the CCD however - I found it really hard work using program that
Starlight supplied.

Dr P Hobson

phantomattack wrote:

I recently purchased a Celestron 11inch GPS telescope and I am now looking
for a good CCD camera for a reasonable price.I checked out a few sites that
were selling the Starlight Xpress MX5.However they say it's "ideally suited
for use with small lenses and telescopes".Does this mean that it's not
suitable for larger telescopes and if so,why?.

Many thanks,

Gary

I use an MX5 with my 20 cm F10 SCT. The major challenge is indeed that
with the long f.l. at this f# you need a good mount and/or autoguider.
It does work nicely (with Barlow for f# = 20) for images of Saturn and
Jupiter. I got some reasonable images of M57 recently too.

I suggest very strongly that you use a program such as AstroArt to drive
the CCD however - I found it really hard work using program that
Starlight supplied.

Dr P Hobson

phantomattack wrote:

I recently purchased a Celestron 11inch GPS telescope and I am now looking
for a good CCD camera for a reasonable price.I checked out a few sites that
were selling the Starlight Xpress MX5.However they say it's "ideally suited
for use with small lenses and telescopes".Does this mean that it's not
suitable for larger telescopes and if so,why?.

Many thanks,

Gary