The deep sky imager is one of meade instruments newest achievements.
Deep sky imager is a high performance CCD camera that astronomers can use to export images directly to their computer. It takes stunning pictures of galaxies, star clusters and planets.
The CCD sensor was developed by sony. The meade deep sky imager features Sony’s super HAD color CCD sensor technology allowing for awesome images.
The meade deep sky imager connects to the computer with a USB 2.0 connection. This means the data transferred to the computer is extraordinarily faster than USB 1.1. It does however support the older USB 1.1 if you do note have a USB 2.0. If you have a laptop or a desktop computer with only USB 1.1 you can buy computer cards you put inside your computer to give yourself 2.0. They are very inexpensive normally around 20 dollars.
No compression. The deep sky imager does not compress the images. This gives you the raw state at which you see in your telescope. You will not experience any loss of data or information. The results are that you get a beautiful picture with the results you want.
The meade deep sky imager gets its power from being plugged into a computer. There is no need for batteries. Just keep in mind that this will drain your laptops battery faster. Than normal. I usually bring with me a car adapter for my laptop if I know I’m going to be out for along period of time.
The software the deep sky imager comes with is the autostar suite, time lapse photography tool, auto and manual exposure.
The system requirements are a bit high for the avagere persons laptop. They say you can run it on a Pentium-II 400 with 98Mega0bytes of RAM but you realy should have a P3 1.4ghz or better and a 512ram is a must.
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