That being the case I think I'll hold off on sending it back until I have a chance to compare to the 164C with your lens to how the 88WR performed. I'll be in SLC tomorrow afternoon/evening and could pick it up then if that works for you. Let's talk off list about the handoff. patrick On 14 Dec 2009, at 23:30, Canopus56 wrote:
Patrick wrote:
So it looks like mag 2 is about as faint as it will go. I might have thought about keeping it anyway but there was also a very bright hot pixel at lower center. So it's going back with a suggestion the offer a similar camera but with the "guts" of the PC164C which is rated at 0.001 lux.
A mag 2 limit is about par for these kind of cameras, from what I read on the internet. Mag 1 or 2 is the limit of Chris Peteron's Cloudbait Obs. all sky camera.
I have a PC164C but no lens. However a friend has a lens he thinks will fit so I'll be trying that next.
Let me know when you are in SLC next and want to do a hand off on the 1.68mm M12 threaded lens.
- Kurt