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Just for fun, I checked how well a SD49225T-HN could capture tonight's moon.
Turned IR off, decreased iris size, went to electrical / color mode

This is what I could get pretty quickly. Not too bad for just a surveillance PTZ...
 

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Great image, thanks for sharing!
Yeah, you can't see Neil Armstrong's footprints, but for a shot from a surveillance PTZ of an object 240,000 miles away, pretty darned good, IMO. :D
 
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Not the same night, but gives a comparison against a lesser, non- Dahua Starlight. This is the best I could do with a SUNBA 601-D20X. Those were the first PTZ's I had. Then I discovered Andy and Dahua Starlights at a similar price point. I've been gradually replacing those with SD49225T-HN PTZ's ever since.

The Dahuas give astonishingly better image quality, more stable firmware, more control over the camera parameters, and don't have weird video encoding or streaming bugs.
 

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Here is moon eclipse using SD10A248V-HNI :) Air was waaaaay to hot, that is why image is distorted and blurry, but still I'm happy with results :)

Also, new one - Jupiter and the moons :)

 
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That's awesome - unfortunately here in the UK it was cloudy so we missed it where I live :(

That 48x zoom is impressive to be able to resolve that detail - I've got two 25x units and the next one I get will be a more powerful zoom.
 
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Even more impressive is it appears you did it without doing anything special with the exposure settings - just zoomed in.
I had to mess with exposure and iris to get it to work. Wow, if you did it with just zooming in and in your usual settings.
 
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WOW, RicRat2009! Which camera was that?

These picts make we want a PTZ that can look further up.
 
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A few months ago I also tried snapshotting the moon with an sd49225t-hn. It didn't turn out as well as the pics from @guykuo

 
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RicRat2009 said:
It is my Canon/Celestron T3i/6SE PTZ. Sorry, couldn’t help it.
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One of my early hobbies :D

I still have a Skywatcher EQ6 goto mount with handcontroller and serial hooked up to a computer, with several scopes on it. With autoguide etc etc. Using my EOS 7D with a lens adapter to fit it on a scope. And sometimes my old modified EOS 350D with the IR filter removed.

Something like this gets out of hand quite quickly, and the cost does add up. Even if you go the CCD route, and use all the fancy stuff for capturing the images with dark frames, color filters and stacking all the looooong exposures images of them afterwards.

Maybe i will pick it up again sometime during the winter.
 
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