Meade Instruments Corporation - Mark Sibole Testimony

The Horse head and Flame Nebula by Mark Sibole. Mosaic taken with the new Meade Deep Sky Imager Pro II. Imaging scope: 80mm Refractor piggyback on 12LX200 and autoguided with the DSI PRO. The flame nebula is 60 minutes ha for luminance and 12 minutes per color channel, auto dark subtract with Envisage. The Horse Head is 60 minutes ha for luminance and 20 minutes per color channel with auto dark subtract.

Mark Sibole and the Deep Sky Imager II™
Mark Sibole writes of his Deep Sky Imager Pro II

"My first impressions of the new Deep Sky Imager II were basically Wow!!

I was really amazed at the sensitivity as well as the image size with the 1/2 inch CCD chip.

I also was impressed with the ability to take 4 to 8 minute sub frames and was able to keep the stars from bloating out on me. What also impressed me was some of the new features like the auto dark frame subtraction, not only using the exposure time but with the new temperature sensor for matching the perfect dark frame to your image. The ability to have a zoom feature for focusing really made it nice as well.

Of all of the images I have taken with the DSI PRO II I haven't had one single bad image through it yet. What I like the most about the new Deep Sky Imager II is its light weight and ease of use. I also noticed the very low noise of the CCD chip

I owned a more expensive cooled imager in the past and didn't get images like I got from the Deep Sky Imager II. Since the introduction of the DSI II I've since sold my cooled imager as I didn't use it any more.

Thanks Meade for a great imager."

Mark Sibole
Fife Lake, MI

More images by Mark Sibole

The Bubble Nebula by Mark Sibole. Meade Deep Sky Imager PRO II and Meade ETX-125 piggy back on 10” LX200. 1 hour luminance and 8 minutes per color channel all in 2 minute subs. Autoguided with DSI PRO.	The Pelican Nebula - IC5070 – by Mark Sibole. Meade Deep Sky Imager PRO II and 80mm Refractor piggy back on 10” LX200. 220 minutes of ha, autoguided with the DSI PRO.	The Crab Nebula – M1 – by Mark Sibole. Meade Deep Sky Imager PRO II and 10 inch lx200@ f/6.3. 60 minutes luminance using 4 minute subs and DSI PRO II and 22 minutes RGB using the DSI - C and autoguided with DSI PRO.	Spiral Galaxy – M33 – by Mark Sibole. Meade Deep Sky Imager PRO II and 80mm Refractor piggy back on 10” LX200. 60 minutes luminance, 12 minutes per color channel all 4 minuts subs. Autoguided with the DSI PRO.


The Moon by Mark Sibole. Meade Deep Sky Imager PRO II and 80mm Refractor piggy back on 10” LX200. Lunar image in ha 350 images saved to fits3p.	Spiral Galaxy – NGC253 – by Mark Sibole. Meade Deep Sky Imager PRO II and 10 inch lx200@ f/6.3. 32 minutes luminance and 12 minutes per color channel autoguided with DSI PRO.	Edge-on Spiral Galaxy - NGC891 – by Mark Sibole. Meade Deep Sky Imager PRO II and Meade LX200 10 inch at f/3. 35 minutes luminance 8 minutes per color channel.	The Running Man Nebula - NGC1977 – by Mark Sibole. Meade Deep Sky Imager PRO II and Meade ETX-125 at f/7.5 (using the Meade f/6.3 focal reducer) piggy back on 10” LX200. 1 hour luminance, 12 minutes per color channel all in 4 minute subs. Autoguided with DSI PRO.


NGC 7023 by Mark Sibole. Meade Deep Sky Imager PRO II and 80mm Refractor piggy back on 10” LX200. 1 hour luminance, 12 minutes per color channel, auto dark subtract in envisage. Autoguided with DSI PRO.	The Helix Nebula by Mark Sibole. Meade Deep Sky Imager PRO II and Meade ETX-125 piggy back on 10” LX200. 72 minutes ha and 28 minutes per color channel all exposures in 4 minute subs. Autoguided with DSI PRO.	The Flame Nebula by Mark Sibole. Meade Deep Sky Imager PRO II and 80mm Refractor piggy back on 10” LX200. 60 minutes ha and 12 minutes per color channel all exposures in 4 minute subs. Autoguided with DSI PRO.