Great news! ? Different looking shape than the original design. ? Will these be featuring the dual filter wheel that was talked about for the new 700 series cameras? ??

Hello Joe,

Thank you for your reply, we are very excited about these cameras and wanted to share the information about them, we are currently working on getting all the information to the existing QSI dealer network. Hopefully they will all be up to date very soon.

Thanks

I'm glad to hear this news, but when I checked the Dealers page on the new website, almost every USA dealer website link led to a non-existant page. Only one of them (CloudBreak Optics) even had a page for QSI cameras, but they only list 600 series cameras.

Hello all,

We are happy to announce the new 700 series QSI CMOS camera range, starting with the 60 mp IMX455 sensor and the 26 mp IMX571 senor. The cameras have a unique look and the quality feel of the original QSI cameras. They all have built in filter wheels and the off axis guider will be offered as a bolt on extra. Please see the brand new QSI website for updates and more details on the exciting new 700 series.
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https://qsimaging.com/

@Kevin, Geof, Marc - thanks for the feedback!

Bruce

Lovely image Bruce!

Marc

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Sh2-280 is a reflection/emission nebula in Monoceros. It is located about 5500 light-years away and is part of the huge molecular cloud that also houses the Rosette Nebula.? Despite its relative brightness and interesting structure, it isn't frequently imaged. The ionizing bright star below center has produced a rather striking bow shock front that is quite prominent.? The image was captured during 5 nights in January 2024 from SkyPi Remote Observatory using a 12.5" PlaneWave scope and a QSI-640ws camera at f/8.? Ha-LRGB integration covered 17.8 hours.



Thanks for looking,
Bruce W.

@Paul and Geof - Thanks for the nice comments.

Bruce

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Bruce,

IC 417 is an emission nebula located about 10K light-years away in the direction of Auriga.? It is a typical emission nebula energized by intense radiation from the newly formed, very hot stars upper-left of center in the image.? It has been nicknamed the “Spider” nebula because of the web-like tendril going out of the frame to the lower right and pointing in the direction of the “Fly” nebula.? The image was captured during 6 nights in December 2023 from SkyPi Remote Observatory using a 12.5" PlaneWave scope and a QSI-640ws camera at f/8.? Ha-LRGB integration covered 16.5 hours



Thanks for looking,
Bruce W.

I had same issue last few weeks ago.
When I saw the image, some images showed too much vignet on some filters (Green and Blue).?
At first, I did not expect that filter wheel had a problem, but I found that those filters (green and blue) filters were not correct position.?

So I uncovered the front cover of camera and watched carefully, and I could see those filters were reallly not positioned correctly.
When filter wheel is rotated, O-ring is contacing with motor actuated shaft. When I see that, I could found that outter side of Oring is not perfectly rounding motion..
Maybe because of too much usage and rubber O-ring was changed a little...So I removed this Oring and disassembled again.?
and it works fine now...

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Thanks, Bernhard.? Hope 2024 treats you well.

Bruce

Hello Bruce,

Very nice details in this beautiful image!

best,
Bernhard

@Geof, Kevin, and Jerry - thanks for the kind feedback.

Bruce W.

Fantastic image, Bruce.? Happy New Year!

Jerry L. Floyd

Bruce.

From memory, the ?“ QSI Camera 1”, “ QSI Camera 2” ASCOM driver(s) are identical, it’s just a way of connecting two QSI cameras to a single application.

When you open the ASCOM Camera Chooser menu with a QSI camera connected and select a QSI Camera, at the top of the ASCOM configuration window is a drop-down menu listing the QSI cameras found by description and a unique identifier string, If you only have a single QSI camera connected then there will only be one camera listed in that drop-down menu and you would select the “QSI Camera 1” driver in your application, if you try and select “QSI Camera 2” in your app that should in theory return an error message because a second QSI camera is not found.

If you have two QSI cameras connected then you would select “QSI Camera 1” in your app and select the unique camera identifier for camera 1 in the ASCOM configuration menu and then repeat the process for the second QSI camera but selecting “QSI Camera 2” in the app and then selecting the unique identifier string for the second camera in the ASCOM configuration menu.

I think that feature was introduced for users with two OTA’s and two QSI cameras installed on a single mount to allow parallel imaging from a single application, or the use of a second QSI camera as a very expensive guider by swapping between the two mounted OTA’s and reversing which OTA/camera was the imager and which was the guider.

HTH

Will.