Longer exposures than the Philips ToUcam PC camera.The good support from Sean's Astronomy Shop on using a second installation CD to get me going.
I do not own any Meade telescopes therefore I use the LPI on non-Meade telescopes.
Meade AutoStar Suite includes the LPI camera, LPI camera software, image processing software, planetarium software and cables to control Meade telescopes. The Meade LPI Camera is operated with the Meade LPI camera program that is a part of Meade's AutoStar Suite. The LPI can be used as an autoguider to control Meade telescopes through the AutoStar Suite software. The Meade LPI (Lunar Planetary Imager) camera is a small 640x480 color camera that is used with a computer with an USB interface. Later I processed these images with RegiStax software. I set up the LPI to take a series of images and save all the images as BMP files. Philips ToUcam I used the LPI without reading the manual. The clouds where moving in that night so after I took some quick Saturn images with the I used it for the first time that night to image Saturn (see above image). I acquired the Meade LPI from Sean's Astronomy Shop on December 21, 2003.