Hi Joe,

Hmmm... hadn't heard of this one, but a Google search turned
up assorted comments on the Meade LPI. (Be warned that aside from
the glowing comments of those selling it, most remarks were somewhat
negative. The software appears to be okay, but the image quality
isn't quite up to, say, a modified Webcam. But you _can_ use it
right out of the box; you don't have to play with a soldering iron.)
Nobody seems to know anything about what chip it might use, except
that it's a color CMOS one.

I'll take a guess that it uses the same chip as either the SAC7
or Philips Vesta. These both use 640x480 color CMOS chips with 5.6
micron square pixels. I doubt we'll get the info from Meade, but
I've generally seen excellent technical data on Meade products from
third parties. At some point, someone will take an image with
this camera, measure the pixel scale, compare it to the focal
length of the scope, and do the math to determine the size of the
pixels in microns... and then we can add it to 'ccds.nam'.

-- Bill