Hi,
I'm planning on getting the asi585mc camera for imaging planets and I'm aware that I need fast fps which needs a fast capture. I'm a total newbie on this and opinions vary elsewhere on the Internet. Can I get away with i5, 8gB Ram, and 512 ssd nvme with usb3.0? Or would you advise differently? For post processing (both dso and planetary) I'm likely to get an i7, 1tB nvme and 16gB/32gB RAM, but I don't want an expensive laptop outside in the dark, waiting for me to knock it onto the floor or something.
Hope you can help with the benefits of experience.
Thanks
Mark
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Not really sure since I do dso imaging only, but it sounds just like my old Dell imaging laptop.
I would think it would work fine as long as it has usb3.
Or, you just jump to what you might already have considered, a mini pc.
It is a heck of a lot slicker of a setup. As long as you have a phone or ipad, you can control everything from inside in comfort (except for polar alignment of course).
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Hi,
I'm planning on getting the asi585mc camera for imaging planets and I'm aware that I need fast fps which needs a fast capture. I'm a total newbie on this and opinions vary elsewhere on the Internet. Can I get away with i5, 8gB Ram, and 512 ssd nvme with usb3.0? Or would you advise differently? For post processing (both dso and planetary) I'm likely to get an i7, 1tB nvme and 16gB/32gB RAM, but I don't want an expensive laptop outside in the dark, waiting for me to knock it onto the floor or something.
Hope you can help with the benefits of experience.
Thanks
Mark Hello Mark, I’ve used everthing from i3-i7 on my setups and when I 1st started out with more “serious” imaging I used my 294mc pro on my i3. It was nothing fancy 8gigs or ram ssd and it worked fine. When I started upgrading to my 071mc pro and now my 2600mc pro I defiantly needed more power. I now have 1 2600 on my wide field rig and just upgraded to a 2nd for my main rig. My wide field rig I’m using an i7 32gb ram 1tb ssd and even at full frame lunar captures I don’t get any dropped frames. The 2nd is still out on that verdict as I still haven’t gotten it tweaked in but for what I’m doing on that rig with my i5 I don’t see that as going to be an issue. Personally if it were me especially now, if you can afford an i7 similar to mine above (you should be able to get one on the secondary market for $300-$350) I’d go that route for the simple fact that as time goes on our equipment will get more and more technical and you would be set for some time. Good luck! Dale
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Hi,
I'm planning on getting the asi585mc camera for imaging planets and I'm aware that I need fast fps which needs a fast capture. I'm a total newbie on this and opinions vary elsewhere on the Internet. Can I get away with i5, 8gB Ram, and 512 ssd nvme with usb3.0? Or would you advise differently? For post processing (both dso and planetary) I'm likely to get an i7, 1tB nvme and 16gB/32gB RAM, but I don't want an expensive laptop outside in the dark, waiting for me to knock it onto the floor or something.
Hope you can help with the benefits of experience.
Thanks
Mark For planetary imaging an ASI585MC is wasteful as you'd need to use ROI anyway to improve data rate transfer and there is no gain in having such a large footprint. It has also the worse color cross-over band of any of the small sensor crowd and I'd definetely go for something else. Having said that, any decently spec'd i5 (not more than 4 generations from the current one) with single channel USB3 port will do, just provide it with the fastest SSD you can find. 8 GB of memory is plenty.
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Hi,
I'm planning on getting the asi585mc camera for imaging planets and I'm aware that I need fast fps which needs a fast capture. I'm a total newbie on this and opinions vary elsewhere on the Internet. Can I get away with i5, 8gB Ram, and 512 ssd nvme with usb3.0? Or would you advise differently? For post processing (both dso and planetary) I'm likely to get an i7, 1tB nvme and 16gB/32gB RAM, but I don't want an expensive laptop outside in the dark, waiting for me to knock it onto the floor or something.
Hope you can help with the benefits of experience.
Thanks
Mark
For planetary imaging an ASI585MC is wasteful as you'd need to use ROI anyway to improve data rate transfer and there is no gain in having such a large footprint. It has also the worse color cross-over band of any of the small sensor crowd and I'd definetely go for something else. Having said that, any decently spec'd i5 (not more than 4 generations from the current one) with single channel USB3 port will do, just provid it with the fastest SSD you can find. 8 GB of memory is plenty. *Thanks for this! What camera would you recommend? Also what sized ssd for planetary? I can get external storage, so really it's the storage I need for a single session that matters, I think.
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I'm not finding any issues with the 585, it's a fine OSC camera for lunar, planets or deep sky so it has a lot of uses. Read noise is also extremely low. Using ROI will pickup your frame rate just as with any camera. I think your choice of outside PC is fine. I have worked with much less without any issues.
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*Thanks for this! What camera would you recommend? Also what sized ssd for planetary? I can get external storage, so really it's the storage I need for a single session that matters, I think. *Either the ASI662 or ASI664 would do depending on how much you want to spend and how large you want the FOV to be as they are essentially sharing the same on-chip technology.
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I am imaging with an old i5 2000-something series CPU and 8gb of some no-name brand cheapo ram. Works mostly fine* with an IMX571 sensor for deepsky as well as a 678MC for planetary. What you really only need is a native (not a hub) USB3 port on the device to facilitate high transfer speeds.
*With mine i do have to fight with sharpcap a bit. If i start a recording at unlimited fps it crashes, but i just start the recording at 10fps and then unlock it to make it work. So a really bad CPU will work, but if you have a choice get a better model than mine. Deepsky with NINA is smooth as butter, no complaints.
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 I used a knackered 10 year old MacBook pro (using bootcamp for windows like any sane person) This was my second attempt. Whatever you have will be fine. At least to start  |
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