AstroP cameras, need some guidance on what specs are important

[Kilohertz]

Hello everyone,

I'm just getting started in the modern area of AP and am putting together a system from scratch and am wanting to use what I already have first, if feasible, otherwise, out comes the wallet.

My first project is to figure out if either of my machine vision cameras would be suitable for AP. Both are C mount which is readily adaptable to pretty much anything. I'm interested in both DSO and planetary photography.

I'm going to post data sheets for both, I would appreciate hearing from those of you in the know about USB imaging cameras and let me know if either of these would work for AP. I know they won't be ideal, but to get started and get my feet wet?

Thank you.

The two cameras I have are Oscar 510C and MLE-C030-U.

Mightex Unbuffered USB2.0 Color 3MP CMOS Cameras.pdf

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Manual_OSCAR_1V0_final.pdf

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[JayTee]

It would be a good idea to read this article first. It gives a lot of info for you to get a beginning idea of what you'll need for the arena you choose - nightscape or planetary/lunar or deep sky.

app.php/article/choosing-the-ideal-setu ... -journey-2