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I think Meade Can market their equipment with out my help.

This is just one mans opinion of this product.

I was fortunate enough to be a Beta tester for this new imager. Let me first start off by saying thanks Meade for allowing me the honor of helping out with the new imager.

What can be said for the new Meade DSI PRO II? For me one word; WoW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Having knowledge of the DSI series of imagers and the Envisage Capture software I knew what to compare and where to look. The new 1/2 inch CCD chip is a great thing to see on the new imager. One of the first things I looked at was the noise in the imager, which I found was significantly less in the new DSI II series. The DSI II now eliminates the dreaded amp glow by turning off the amp during capture. Meade also added a sensor to the CCD chip to monitor the chip’s temperature. With the new features it is a very quiet imager and does not need cooling like most imagers today. The DSI PRO II is also more sensitive then its predecessor, the DSI PRO.

When testing the imager I used several telescopes including a Megrez 80 mm sd, Meade ETX 125, and a Meade classic 10 inch LX200. The DSI PRO II performed very well on all 3 setups.

Listed below are some of my test images.

http://meade.com/dsi_ii/marksibole/index.html

As you can see from these images it is a very nice imager with a low amount of noise. All of the exposures listed here are in 4 minute subs except for the Helix Nebula, which was 2 minute subs.

All of these images were captured using the Envisage software and utilizing the auto dark subtract feature. Using the auto dark subtract feature will save time in post processing images.

With the new features in Envisage you can also take dark frames and add them to a bank for later use. When dark subtracting the software not only uses the exposure length but also uses the temperature of the exposure giving you the best dark frame subtraction possible.

You can also specify the tolerance of the temperature differential of the dark frame subtract from exact temperature to 1,2 3,4 C tolerances.

With the new DSI PRO II and the new features in Envisage it’s almost impossible to take a bad image. Alignment and weather conditions will still play a roll in the success of a nice capture, but the DSI PRO II takes a lot of work out of imaging letting you focus on alignments and other problems. The new DSI PRO II is a great value and a great imager.

I believe this is one imager that you will truly enjoy for many years to come.

Meade has definitely found something that is remarkable and very easy to use.

Since the implementation of the DSI Imagers into my arsenal of equipment I have since sold my $1800.00 imager, as it was no longer used and the DSI PRO II imager was much better.

Let me finish off by saying this; who needs to spend thousands of dollars on an imager with cooling when there is a perfect all around imager on the market (for the beginner or advanced imaging person) at a truly great price??

Not me, I am very happy with the Meade DSI PRO II series imager.

Mark Sibole

M.T.S.O.