Re: [Utah-astronomy] Purchase advice on Canon Digital Rebel XS, XSi

Kurt, SLAS has an SBIG ST-6 which was obtained for astroimaging classes at SPOC. Those classes never went anywhere so it's available for sale cheap. Real cheap. Care to borrow it and check it out? patrick On 30 Oct 2010, at 19:17, Canopus56 wrote:

I am getting ready to buy my first DSLR and I would like to buy a Rebel XS or XSi. This would be a general purpose camera but I want to cross-purpose it as an astronomy camera. I feel the cheaper XS model meets my needs.

I am unclear on:

1) For time lapse night time photography of a large sky section with the 15mm lens, how do you get the images off the camera in real time since it only holds 4 shots?

2) Other advice of comments are the purchase are welcome.

Thanks - Kurt