By Emmanuele Sordini
Astronomy: reviews
3 December 2020
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In July 2019 I took a trip to Tivoli Farm, Namibia to observe the southern sky. I had brought along a Star Adventurer tracker together with my faithful stand-alone camera, a Lacerta MGEN. Unfortunately, my MGEN acted up on me quite soon, putting my wide-field program at risk. I asked our host, Reinhold Schreiber, for help, and as usual he was very kind and helpful and had a trick up his sleeve: a stand-alone camera previously unknown to me, the […]
by Emmanuele Sordini and Lorenzo Comolli The MagZero MZ-5m camera, the Italian flavor of the QHY5 CCD guider, has been around for quite a while, and has ever since been quite popular among amateur astronomers as a good bang for the buck. This camera has already been reviewed on bloomingstars.com: back then, we highlighted its streghts, such as its lightweight as ease of use (thanks to the built-in ST4 compatible interface; this time, we do a side-by-side comparison of sensitivity and […]
One of the most-feared bugaboos for those who take up long-exposure digital imaging is getting nice round stars, as a result of good-quality autoguiding. To this end, there are several options available on the market: however, they are mostly dedicated devices (e.g. self-guiding cameras from Sbig, or Starlight Xpress’ SXV Guider ), or very powerful but pricey products (as is the case with the STV from Sbig), or even newcomers which still have to conquer their customer base (e.g. the […]