Meade Instruments Corporation - Matt Taylor Testimony

The Rosette Nebula by Matt Taylor imaged with the new Meade Deep Sky Imager Pro II. Imaging scope: 80mm Refractor on the Meade LXD650 equatorial mount. Autoguided by SBIG ST-2000. 15 panel mosaic, 1 hour per panel (6 frames x 10 min. each).

Matt Taylor and the Deep Sky Imager II™
Matt Taylor writes of his Deep Sky Imager Pro II

"With the introduction of the DSI Pro II Meade continues to be the industry leader for low cost, low noise, easy, powerful, and fun to use CCD cameras. I never thought that such a camera could change my total mindset concerning CCD cameras and the need for cooling, but it has. It's low noise, ease of use, and fun factor have combined to demote my high dollar cooled CCD camera to autoguiding duties and I find that my primary imager has become the DSI Pro II. Almost all of the images I've made with the DSI Pro II have been stacks of 10 minute exposures and the results are nothing short of amazing to me. The exposures are smooth, with a very high signal to noise ratio even with short stacks of individual exposures. My imaging location is in Los Angeles county, under heavy light pollution, but the very high sensitivity of the DSI Pro II's CCD chip has allowed me to make very high quality H-Alpha and LRGB images. If I had it to do over again there is little doubt in my mind that I would have saved thousands of dollars and would have been just as happy by buying the DSI Pro II rather than the expensive cooled camera that is now my autoguider."

Matt Taylor
Palmdale, Ca

More images by Matt Taylor

The Cone Nebula by Matt Taylor. Meade Deep Sky Imager PRO II and 80mm Refractor on the Meade LXD650 Mount. 24 x 10 min exposures.	The Flaming Star Nebula by Matt Taylor. Meade Deep Sky Imager PRO II and 80mm Refractor on the Meade LXD650 Mount. LHaRGB 2 hours each filter. Post process drizzle 2.00/1.00/0.60.	The Horsehead Nebula by Matt Taylor. Meade Deep Sky Imager PRO II and 80mm Refractor on the Meade LXD650 Mount. L(LHa)RGB, 8 Hrs of 5 Min Exposures	The Crab Nebula - M1 - by Matt Taylor. Meade Deep Sky Imager PRO II and 80mm Refractor on the Meade LXD650 Mount. LRGB L=3x10 Minutes RGB=6x5 Minutes


The Crab Nebula - M1 - by Matt Taylor. Meade Deep Sky Imager PRO II and 80mm Refractor on the Meade LXD650 Mount. Taken with the use of Narrow Band imaging filters, RGB=OIII,HA,SII	Spiral Galaxy - M81 - by Matt Taylor. Meade Deep Sky Imager PRO II and 80mm Refractor on the Meade LXD650 Mount. (LHa)LRGB 2 hours each LRGB filter, 1/2 hour of HA	The Eskimo Nebula by Matt Taylor. Meade 12" LX200GPS/SMT/UHTC at F/10 w/ Meade Deep Sky Imager PRO II (unguided) Exposures: RGB = 600 x 15 Seconds Per Filter, Autodark Subtracted. Post process drizzle 2.00/1.00/0.60.	Thor's Helmut by Matt Taylor. Meade Deep Sky Imager PRO II and 80mm Refractor on the Meade LXD650 Mount. 6 x 10 minutes in HA.


The Running Man Nebula - NGC1977 - by Matt Taylor. Meade Deep Sky Imager PRO II and 80mm Refractor on the Meade LXD650 Mount. 20 x 10 minutes each.	M16 by Matt Taylor. Meade Deep Sky Imager PRO II and 80mm Refractor telescope. 6 x 10 minutes each.	M27 by Matt Taylor. Meade Deep Sky Imager PRO II and 12" LX200GPS telescope. Guided with Orion 80ED and SBIG ST2000XM. Exposures: 15x4 Min Per Filter. Processed with AIP4WIN and Photoshop CS.	M08 by Matt Taylor. Meade Deep Sky Imager PRO II and 12" LX200GPS telescope. Guided with Orion 80ED and SBIG ST2000XM. Exposures: 6x10 Min Per Filter. Processed with AIP4WIN and Photoshop CS.