The imaging camera is an SBIG STL 11000M CCD camera. It has a CCD chip containing 11 million 9 micron pixels with the same dimensions as a 35mm film frame. Personally, I still prefer the aspect ratio of a 35mm film frame for my images compared to the square images with the 16000 chips in other cameras. The STL 11000 is a self-guiding camera with a built in separate guide chip for autoguiding. It also has a built in 5-position filter wheel in which I have Baader Planetarium L, R, G, B and H-alpha filters.