https://www.shelyak.com/bien-choisir-sa ... e-en-2020/
A new article to choose the right camera for spectroscopy autoguiding :
https://www.shelyak.com/how-to-choose-y ... 0/?lang=en

Not everyone can afford such expensive cameras for guiding so for the ALPY where I need good faint star performance I still use my old ATIK 16ic-s which looks similar to this Orion camera but using a different Sony sensor. It is a great very low noise camera, much better than the ZWO ASI120 I use on the LHIRES so I would think the Orion camera should work well for people on a budget. (The only disadvantage of the old ATIK 16ic-s is it is USB1.0 so I have to use a subframe to get it to run fast enough !)etienne bertrand wrote:Petits capteurs :
Que penser des CCD Orion starshoot G3 monochrome prix ~315€ ?
Capteur ccd et pixels de 8.6 x 8.3 µm. La taille du capteur fait 752 x 582 pixels, c'est un peu petit mais sa doit marcher, il y a le port ST4 et le capteur est refroidie à -10° de la température ambiante.
For autoguiding yes, because time exposure is very short, but if you want to identify a very weak target, it's necessary to do exposure of some minutes (example with PN confirmation with very faint target and we do about 5 minutes exposure to identify the target and put it in the slit).So a cooling is necessary in this case to have a good picture of the target and of course yes regulation is not necessary.Peter Somogyi wrote:if you want cooling, the regulation itself is a pure waste of money (for 1-2 secs of exposure, you don't need regulation at all).
It depend of the focal length of the telescope. Many of our customer have focal range about 3 or 4 meters. And the field of a small sensor like an ASI 120MM is not useful and the automatic recognition of the field (with astrometry.net for example) don't work in this case. Some user do automatic observation during the night and with small sensor the automatic observation can't work well. So that why we need a sensor like ATIK 314L+ or Sony IMX 174.Peter Somogyi wrote:You don't need size larger than 0.5-0.7" - screen edges will be wignetted (especially uncorrected at f/4). However, should be 0.5" at least, it helps finding targets.