Sky & Telescope - November 2019 - 79

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Kepler sCMOS Cameras
The New Standard of Excellence
Gary Walker's work in milli-mag photometry using the
Kepler KL400 camera is setting new standards for
precision. According to Gary, "The Kepler is 3x better
than my previous $38K camera. I have more than 85,000
CCD observations in the AAVSO data base, including the
ﬁrst by an amateur, and none of those observations had
errors as low as .0008 mags [like the KL400]."

Legendary Brandon Eyepieces
BYERS SERIES III TELESCOPE MOUNT:

2019

One-sixth page horizontal
4.750 x 2.31

Melotte 15 image
courtesy Tolga Gumusayak
(Kepler KL4040 camera)

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Two reasons why every
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