I have a Celestron Nexstar 4SE telescope mounted on a shelf outside my study window. I have all the functions remotely controlled and I normally use an Imaging Source USB astro cam to record videos which I convert into images. It cost about 6x my new A810.
I thought I would try my A810 so I bought a digiscoping bracket and tried it out on the Moon. Amazingly, it outperformed my usual camera and was a real treat to use. I hooked it up via chdkptp which let me use liveview to focus and adjust the scene and start and stop video recording. All this from the comfort of my study while it was -8C outside.
The A810 has a big advantage over the usb cam in that the video data rate is not limited by the usb wire. I can also zoom in and out remotely to give different image scales.
Attached is a detail of the moon shot with the A810. You can see the complete image in a zoom-pan version here
http://zoom.it/iUX9#full It covers about a quarter of the lunar surface.
Many thanks to the developers who made all this possible. I am very impressed. Next trial - sunspots.
Dave
