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Testing Orion DSLR cooler on Skywatcher HEQ-5 Pro, Adel Kildeev

Testing Orion DSLR cooler on Skywatcher HEQ-5 Pro

Testing Orion DSLR cooler on Skywatcher HEQ-5 Pro, Adel Kildeev

Testing Orion DSLR cooler on Skywatcher HEQ-5 Pro

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Surprised but the mount handles this bulky box quite well, no backlash, guiding scope well. But balancing of the telescope with a cooler is a bit tricky. Orion DSLR cooler isa very bulky and awkward to use, cools only 7.5-12 C below ambivalent temperature (Orion clams 20 C temperature drop, sorry, it is not a true), but the matrix still warming rapidly. Cooler finger should be near matrix, cooling the camera from outside is not effective. Not surprised that the Orion discontinued this product. In my opinion this is a useless expensive and heavy box Much better to have a DSLR modified including a controlled cooler or to buy real CCD astro-camera with nice -40 C strong cooler

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Testing Orion DSLR cooler on Skywatcher HEQ-5 Pro, Adel Kildeev