(meteorobs) Astrovid "Fireball Camera"

[Chris Peterson]

The camera is pretty new- a few months. Probably a good system if you're 
into buying all your stuff, but you can build the same thing (pretty easily, 
IMO) for a lot less.

Chris

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Chris L Peterson
Cloudbait Observatory
http://www.cloudbait.com


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "bob71741" <bob71741 at yahoo.com>
To: <meteorobs at meteorobs.org>
Sent: Monday, November 24, 2008 1:13 PM
Subject: (meteorobs) Astrovid "Fireball Camera"


> Sky and Telescope in its January 2009 issue has listed as a hot
> product for 2009 a "Fireball" CCD camera made by Astrovid.
>
> The complete system costs ca. $1100, and if you want a fisheye lens to
> do "allsky", add another $190.
>
> They do not really give any technical specs on their website for the
> camera. (http://astrovid.com)
>
> Is this camera new, or has it been around for a while? Has anyone seen
> or used one?
>
> Best regards
> Bob