He was trying to tell me that rather than using my 174mm-cool I can just use the regular 174mm with a piece of silver insulation material to wrap the camera and it will stay nice and cool like it is in A/C He also says I should wrap my entire scope with it and it won't be hot to the touch. I said even now if I am aligned on the sun so the whole tube is shaded by the dew shield it is cool, he keeps trying to tell me that the sun gets the tube hot because when he lets his scope sit in the sun at an angle to the sun it gets hot, well DUH!
He won't listen how the chip gets a lot hotter than the camera and that even if I wrap it, it might help a little bit but first it won't like it is in A/C like he says and second the chip is still going to heat up and up and up.
I finally agreed to keep the peace (as he is a fellow trustee at the observatory) to run a series of tests both with and without the insulation on a uncooled camera and also I will do the same with a wireless thermometer and report the results.
Oh and he did say rather than my hiding under an umbrella in the sun as that is too thin I need to make a full 5 foot diameter shield of this stuff.
