The Hyperstar III

Posted on May 24, 2013 by Greg Parker

The Hyperstar III is so fast that all other amateur imaging systems are extremely slow and have very disappointing performance in comparison – and that includes the mini-WASP array as currently configured.

 

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2 Responses to The Hyperstar III

  1. Tom says:
    May 24, 2013 at 1:04 pm

    Lots of ways of looking at it but in terms of aperture the C11 has got something like 9 times the collecting area of a Sky 90….. You don’t have nine Sky90s

  2. Greg Parker says:
    May 24, 2013 at 1:22 pm

    Nope – there’s actually only one way to look at it – and that’s f# which normalises the aperture to the focal length. So the Hyperstar is 5 times faster than the Sky 90 and 9 times faster than the TS 80s (this is for extended objects like nebulae). So taking the mini-WASP as a whole the Hyperstar is something like 2 and a half times faster. BUT the FOV of each MW camera is about twice the Hyperstar so in the end it’s almost break even between the Hyperstar and the mini-WASP array. If I had an extra imaging scope on the mini-WASP (as designed) then the mini-WASP would just edge ahead of the Hyperstar overall. Nothing beats f# 🙂

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