Are you ready for the Starlight Xpress Lodestar Autoguider? Although the Lodestar is primarily intended as a high performance guider, it makes a superb electronic finder and planetary imaging camera! With ICX429AL Sony Exview interline CCD with low dark current and vertical anti-blooming, it can produce an image format of 752 x 580 pixels with a image area of 6.4mm (Horizontal) x 4.75mm (Vertical). Put the power of a Starlight Xpress Lodestar Autoguider behind your imaging system and you'll get a spectral response of QE maximum at 620nM (-65%), 35% at 400nM and 770nM . This means readout noise of less than 15 electrons RMS - and typically only 10 electrons. The Starlight Xpress Lodestar Autoguider will give you a full well capacity of greater than 50,000 e- (unbinned) and an anti-blooming overload margin greater than 1000x. Dark currents? The dark frame saturation time is greater than 1 hour - less than 0.1 electrons/second @ + 10C ambient. This Starlight Xpress Lodestar Autoguider is USB powered and has a built-in USB 2.0 compatible interface. Its typical image download time is 0.2 seconds at full resolution using USB 2.0. It's ambient air cooled, so all you need to do is slide this 32 x 72mm black anodized aluminum barrel into the focuser and start imaging... Even "live" during a full Moon!
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