Altair Astro 269C TEC - Camera Review

Do I like the new Altair Astro 269C TEC camera? How did it perform? Do I have buyers remorse? How does it compare to other OSC cameras? This week I will give my honest opinion about this camera.

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[darrenwarne]

I have this cam and it is great. The HCG settings are a bit confusing though is basically a 2X gain setting. It is also nice that the sensor glass is an Ir/uv cut filter.

[daveJnr]

I took the plunge and bought this one as my very first dedicated astro camera. Arrived this week and waiting for some clear skies now.

[AstroPixUK]

This camera is on my wish list. Great video and Happy birthday!!! Best rgds Jim

[book]

Nice. I've been curious about Altair cameras.

[gerryberard]

Very nice review and very helpful. Thank you. :)

[redfireroush]

Very Nice Review. Very helpful when (buying/upgrading) the Astrophotography accessories.

[corinlewis]

Hi Amy,
Greetings from a sunny London U.K, yesterday I just ordered my first astro camera, the AA 296C, it should arrived at my work place sometime today, I was watching your video on the camera, I'm very excited, I hope I get better imaging from bortle class 8/9 skies, as it's too warm for my Canon 600D camera to take long exposures.
Anyway thanks again for your video, clear skies 🙂🌠

[adambassman]

This just confirmed that I’m making the right choice in the 269C! 👍

[dumpydalekobservatory]

I've just bought this camera form Altair at kelling Heath star party & managed a quick first light with it, I did try to stack the images in DSS but its not finding any stars tried different settings in dss still the same but you stretch the fit files & all the data is there. I do think I had the gain setting to high but I don't think that would have caused to much an issue with the data but then I am new at using a cmos camera, another thing I found was in the Ascom driver the gain setting said one number & in NINA it were completely different all a bit confusing for me at the moment

[OlliesSpace]

I think this year I'll be going for a dedicated color camera at some point so good to see options like this.👍

[DSOImager]

These newer OSC cameras are impressive. Nice review :)

[Kevin-tlr]

I am think of buying this camera. I use Zwoasi294 osc but got issues with it. I use 60mm refractor and 900mm celestron refractor. I hope this camera may ve compatible. But what I really want ti know which is better the altair or the zwo?

[brod]

Everyone is coming out with these back illuminated sensors. And this is one of the nicer ones. And it's not the IMX157 sensor. Interesting! ;o)

[leoncorns]

I took the plunge and brought this camera, so happy I did. But am I wasting my time with all the calibration frames? Maybe I don't need darks?

[siddy]

Wow!!! I didn't realise this was so big, Im new to trying this and don't no were to start? And not even sure if I can, as iv got a sky watcher 200p with baader lenes and I manually turn it🤷‍♂️ and not sure if I need a sky tracker, I feel I'm out off my depth. But this is very impressive, thanks for this is a very good review

[GalaxyArtMedia]

Nice video Amy, I am curious how this camera performs compared with Zwo294MC

[Alan-gnij]

Just out of curiosity what gsin/offset are you using?

[AstroDenny]

My ASI294MC has a good bit of amp glow, but it calibrates out completely. I'm not sure I would switch just because of that.

[willswings]

Thanks for this review, I wonder If I buy this on or the ZWO ASI533MC Pro, if you can make a test between those two astrocam, Iit'll be cool. BTW English is not my first language, and I just want to thank you very much for your phrasing so sweet and understandable witouth this f...g vocal fry from most of US women these days!

[jefffullerton]

I use dark frames to cakibrate out the Amp glow