Meade Deep Space Imager: a point-and-shoot astrocamera (almost)
It's not new but it's certainly innovative enough for us to groove on. Meade Instruments has developed a Deep Sky Imager for budding astronomers to shoot "stunning" deep sky digital photographs. The imager works with "any telescope" and sports Sony's Super HAD CCD sensor and the AutoStar software suite for a whole mess of camera and image manipulation capabilities. The USB 2.0 imager also doubles as a "sensitive and easy to use" autoguider for keeping "any telescope" locked onto deep-sky objects — kinda important for those long night-sky exposures, dig. At $299, this is about as close to a point-and-shoot astrocamera that you're gonna get.
[Thanks, oshean]
