Re: New "DSI Pro" and Wireless AutoStar from Meade!

It may have some new bells & whistles, but maximum rate is 5 fps, no good
for Jupiter most of the time or even the moon in most areas. Might be good
for DSO use though...

Bill P

"Davoud" <star@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:080420051029445610%star@xxxxxxxxxx
> I just had an e-mail from Meade annoucing two new products: the "Deep
> Sky Imager Pro" <http://www.meade.com/dsipro/ > and the "Wireless
> Autostar II for LX200GPS and RCX400 Telescopes"
> <http://www.meade.com/autostar/wireless_autostar.html>.
>
> "The new Deep Sky Imager Pro is the latest innovation from Meade
> Engineering. Over two hundred percent more sensitive with four times
> the resolution of the color Deep Sky Imager, the Deep Sky Imager Pro is
> a high-performance, easy-to-use monochrome CCD that can take you to the
> next level in shooting and processing stunning deep sky images of
> galaxies, nebulae, star clusters and planets. Aside from the amazing
> retail price of only $399, the Deep Sky Imager Pro is the very first
> commercially available CCD camera designed to incorporate NASA's
> Drizzle Technology (developed originally for the Hubble Space
> Telescope) that can correct field rotation (De-rotating the image),
> eliminating the need to polar align the telescope, Drizzle can also
> increase image resolution and field of view! The Drizzle feature works
> with any AutoStar controlled Meade telescope."
>
> $399; RGB filter set $199; Camera and filters together $499.
> Availability: End of April.
>
> "A milestone leap in telescope control, now you can operate your
> LX200GPS or RCX400 telescope wirelessly from over a hundred feet away!
> Just plug in the wireless receiver into the hand box port of the drive
> base, turn on the Wireless AutoStar II controller and you'll have
> wireless control of every electronic feature of the telescope. The
> system uses radio frequency signals instead of infrared, so you won't
> have to be in direct line of site for proper operation. Each controller
> is on a separate communication code so that any number of astronomers
> observing together will not interfere with each other."
>
> $249; Availability: End of April.
>
> Davoud
>
> --
> usenet *at* davidillig dawt com


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