Meade Imagers
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Meade LPI and Autostar Suite
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Meade's exciting Lunar-Planetary Imager (LPI) works with nearly any telescope to capture striking, color images of Earth’s near neighbors and some deep-sky objects, too. It’ll even capture daytime terrestrial images.

LPI (Lunar Plantary Imager) combines the power of an electronic astronomical imager/autoguider with the simplicity of the web cam.

* Achieve great results the first time out on the Moon, planets, brighter deep-sky objects and terrestrial targets.
* Easy to use with real-time display of object on PC screen. Just centre, focus and shoot.
* Magic Eye software assisted focusing.
* Automatic and manual exposure control from 0.001 to 15 seconds (up to 450x longer than web cams).
* Automatically takes multiple exposures.
* Automatically selects best images.
* Automatically aligns multiple images and  
combines them into one superior image.
* Works as an autoguider for long-exposure astro images. Autostar Suite Software includes powerful tools to help you get the most from your Meade telescope.
* Sophisticated planetarium program with over 19 million objects.
* Select objects from the planetarium display and have the telescope automatically slew to those objects.
* Control all Autostar functions from your PC.
* Talking Telescope software translates Autostar text to synthesized speech through PC speaker.
* Automatic point-and-click Autostar tour generation.
* Create observing lists and download to Autostar. * Remote telescope control over the internet.
* Autostar Updater Tool keeps your Autostar current by downloading the latest Autostar system firmware updates; comets, asteroid and satellite data from the    internet. An exclusive Meade feature.
* Includes cables to connect your Autostar equipped telescope to your PC.

Meade Deep Sky Imager II one-shot color camera

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The user-friendly astrophotography revolution continues. Introducing the new DSI II. It combines ease-of-use with a larger chip, greater sensitivity, higher resolution, and dramatically lower thermal noise. Meade engineers have invented a remarkable new way to reduce noise without a cooler. This means you can take exposures for hours at a time. And the new thermal monitoring sensors automatically match your dark frames to ambient temperature so it’s nearly impossible to take an uncalibrated picture. The software includes a new zoom feature for easier focusing and the squared pixels of the new larger chip make processing simpler and images more beautiful than ever. The DSI II is the world’s first un-cooled camera with low thermal noise. And that’s as cool as it gets.

  • Automatic and manual exposure: Auto and manual exposure settings let the Deep Sky Imager II optimize the exposure automatically, or let you set it yourself.
  • Automatic align and stack: The software will automatically align and stack a series of images, using state-of-the-art techniques, to provide an extremely low noise, highly detailed single composite color image.
  • Color saturation and balance: The AutoStar Suite includes the tools to adjust color saturation and balance, eliminating the need to use Photoshop or other aftermarket tools to accomplish this pre-publication step.
  • Stretch options: Auto-stretch automatically brings out dim objects in short exposures. It optimizes the contrast of objects, with adjustable contrast settings.
  • Automatic dark subtraction: Dark frames are automatically subtracted, eliminating hot or cold pixels and giving you a clean final image. “Fix Cold Pixels" removes “holes" in images resulting from saturated dark pixels during long exposures. “Fix Hot Pixels" removes cosmic ray strikes and noisy pixels from images.
  • Resampling: Allows you to smoothly increase or decrease the image size from the standard 752 pixels wide x 582 pixels high with minimal image degradation.
  • Live histogram: Helps you optimize for the best exposure.
  • Blink comparator: This allows you to align and blink images taken at different times for supernova and minor planet patrols.
  • Magic Eye focus: Built-in focusing program for super fast, no-hassle focusing.
  • Autoguider capable: The software also allows the DSI II to be used as a sensitive and simple to use autoguider for guiding long exposure 35mm photos or CCD images taken with your existing CCD camera.
  • Time lapse photography: This built-in program lets you create movies of the rotation of Jupiter, moons transiting Jupiter, lunar occultations, etc.
  • “Drizzle" Technology: Originally developed by NASA for processing images from the Hubble Space Telescope, the included Drizzle software program corrects field rotation (with Meade AutoStar-controlled telescopes only), eliminating the need to polar align the telescope. Instead of just tracking and stacking images by following the movements of one star, the supplied Envisage Software with Drizzle tracks and stacks images locked on two stars. This corrects for the image rotation that streaks the star images during conventional imaging if the telescope is tracking in the Altazimuth mode, or you have only roughly polar aligned your telescope in the Equatorial mode.

    • Meade Deep Sky Imager Pro II MONO
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    MONOCHROME CCD ASTRO-IMAGER The DSI PRO is a high-performance, easy-to-use monochrome CCD camera that allows every astronomer to shoot and process stunning deep sky photographs of galaxies, nebulae, star clusters and planets. This CCD camera is designed with the intermediate to advanced amateur astrophotographer in mind. Purchase the new Deep Sky Imager PRO with our high quality RGB filter set and produce stunning RGB and LRGB images.
    High Sensitivity Monochrome CCD Sensor from Sony® - The Meade Deep Sky Imager utilizes Sony’s ExView HAD Monochrome CCD Image Sensor Technology for incredible low noise and higher dynamic range featuring a 16-Bit A/D converter.
    USB 2.0 High Speed - Featuring a fast USB 2.0 High Speed connection. This will allow fast data transfer. The actual download time for daytime or planetary imaging is up to 5 frames per second. For longer exposures the download time is 1/2 a second in order to sustain a higher signal-to-noise ratio. There is virtually no delay between the time the image is taken and when it appears on your computer screen. The Deep Sky Imager PRO is also backward compatible with USB 1.1.  

    Meade Deep Sky Imager Pro II With RGB Filters
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