| | My Equipment |  | 
Celestron 9.25-SCT is my main imaging telescope, on a Celestron Advanced VX mount. | |  | I use a ZWO 60mm Guide Scope for autoguiding, but also use it for wide field imaging on occasion. The heliacal focuser is very sturdy and the lens is high quality. |
| |  | For deep sky objects, I use a Celestron Nightscape color camera, with a 10.7 megapixel detector. It easily cools to at least 25C below ambient air temperature, but it draws a lot of power when using batteries in the field. The background noise is also a little bit high. |
| |  | This is my ASI 224 MC color camera. With its USB 3.0 port, I have captured planetary video at over 100 frames per second, and it can run even faster than that. It has impressively low noise, and the 10-bit ADC makes planets look so much better than 8-bit imaging. I also use it with my ZWO 60mm Guide Scope for autoguiding. |
| |  | This is my ZWO Atmospheric Dispersion Corrector. When planets are below 30 degrees elevation, this does an amazing job of correcting the colors and bringing them into focus. I've been very impressed with this little thing. |
| | | Retired Equipment | |  | The Celestron NexImage5 was my first video astronomy camera. I used it for lunar and planetary imaging. The big 5 megapixel detector gave a nice field of view, although the USB 2 port couldn't get past about 50 frames per second. |
| |  | This big heavy thing is my Orion Starshoot Deep Space Color Imager II (what an impressively long name). I did get pretty sharp images with this, although the small detector gave a pretty limited field of view. I was not a fan of the non-square pixels! Also it shot stills but not video. |
| |  | My very first astronomy camera was an SBIG ST-237A monochrome with a filter wheel. The quality of this 16-bit camera was excellent, although the detector provided a small field of view. The camera had a separate controller box, which I had to have serviced twice, my only camera that's needed repair. I had to physically send it back, but SBIG promptly fixed it for free. |
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