I saw amateur astronomers who tried to cool planetary cameras, I found on the net a "Mobile Phone Cooler, Convex Magnetic Heat Sink, Semiconductor Cooler, Noise Value Below 22 DB" seeing the attractive price I decided to take it and experimenting on my ASI174MM, I use the camera almost exclusively on solar photography and the cooling would have the purpose of keeping the temperature around 20° and perhaps reducing the noise a bit.
The first problem was how to fix the camera, I thought of a sort of light and easily removable cage, to help her husband and the 3D printer we easily made two rings with four holes, then using spacers with which we fixed the whole.
Turned on and connected, the system in about twenty minutes the temperature dropped by almost 10 degrees I would say acceptable, I also took two pictures and the noise is reduced. If you have any suggestions they are always welcome, I will try later to better test the system.
Taken again with a temperature of 31.7 °C
Taken again with a temperature of 24.0 °C
Thanks for your patience and sorry for my english
Ideas to cool the ASI174MM
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Re: Ideas to cool the ASI174MM
That's a great test, I've never thought about cooling the camera
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Re: Ideas to cool the ASI174MM
Hi Ross,
What was the exposure time for that test and where do you live?
Where can I find that phone cooler?
reagrds Rainer
What was the exposure time for that test and where do you live?
Where can I find that phone cooler?
reagrds Rainer
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Re: Ideas to cool the ASI174MM
Very nice Ross.
I've been using this product to cool my ASI 174mm camera for a while now:
https://www.amazon.com/Cooler-Black-Sha ... TLDB7?th=1
I haven't done any testing of darkframes like you have, but I get similar drop in temperature (reported by FireCapture) when using the cooler. Not sure if it makes any significant noise reduction, but at least it keeps the camera in a better operating temperature (not overheating).
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I've been using this product to cool my ASI 174mm camera for a while now:
https://www.amazon.com/Cooler-Black-Sha ... TLDB7?th=1
I haven't done any testing of darkframes like you have, but I get similar drop in temperature (reported by FireCapture) when using the cooler. Not sure if it makes any significant noise reduction, but at least it keeps the camera in a better operating temperature (not overheating).
Best regards,
Arne
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Re: Ideas to cool the ASI174MM
My aim is exactly to keep the temperature bearablearnedanielsen wrote: ↑Wed May 31, 2023 4:50 pm Very nice Ross.
I've been using this product to cool my ASI 174mm camera for a while now:
https://www.amazon.com/Cooler-Black-Sha ... TLDB7?th=1
I haven't done any testing of darkframes like you have, but I get similar drop in temperature (reported by FireCapture) when using the cooler. Not sure if it makes any significant noise reduction, but at least it keeps the camera in a better operating temperature (not overheating).
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Best regards,
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Re: Ideas to cool the ASI174MM
the link is this
https://www.amazon.it/dp/B0B6PRHZ49?psc ... ct_details
I live in Italy in Maserà di Padova
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Re: Ideas to cool the ASI174MM
Hi,
Thanks.
Thanks.
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Re: Ideas to cool the ASI174MM
Alternatively you can take the route I went down with the Altair Hypercam 174M Mono Fan Cooled camera with the fan built in ...
https://www.altairastro.com/altair-hype ... BxsSDt9I5s
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Re: Ideas to cool the ASI174MM
Good results!
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