Design for planetary imaging and EAA imaging & Lucky!
Tulipano, Luca, RASA8 + Urano-C camera
Uranus-C and Mars-C II are not only for planetary imaging, but also very powerful for EAA and lucky imaging!
Product Description
Uranus-C is a camera (IMX585) developed by Player One Astronomy, which adopts the brand new Sony IMX585 color sensor size 1/1.2 ". There pixel size of 2.9 um hosts a depth of 47Ke with a total of 8.3MP (resolution is 3856 * 2180 ) e the diagonal is of 12.85 mm .
STARVIS 2 technology
Uranus-C (IMX585) and Mars-C II (IMX662) based on Sony's latest STARVIS 2 technology , have back-illuminated pixels used in CMOS image sensors.
Format
Uranus-C (IMX585) has a 1/1.2" format, this size is large enough for imaging.
Full well
Uranus-C (IMX585) has 47Ke Full well capacity, it is almost 3.6 times more than IMX485 (13Ke).
Attractions
Non-Amp-Glow
The biggest surprise of the camera Uranus-C (IMX585) is that its dark frame is totally "dark", no matter what we strengthen the curve, there is no AMP glow!
Camera dark 300s frame Uranus-C (50% scaling):
Non-Amp-Glow can give us a very clean background, much easier to get high quality images.
Recommended accessories:
ACS (Active Cooling System) is an external air-cooled system, designed for large format solar and planetary cameras which already has PCS (Passive Cooling System ).
ACS can provide much better temperature control. When the camera has PCS+ACS, the temperature is only 7°C higher than ambient, the camera body is a little warm but not hot!
ACS can not only be used in daylight for solar imaging, but also could be used at night for DSO lucky imaging.
https://player-one-astronomy.com/product/active-cooling-system-acs-for-uncooled-cameras/
Appreciation of users' works
Pelican Nebula, photo by Luke Newbould
RASA8 telescope + camera Uranus-C (IMX585), IDAS nbz uhc filter
2min*81, gain=200, offset=10
Cocoon Nebula, Photo by Luke Newbould
RASA8 telescope + Uranus-C (IMX585) camera
M27 LinQisheng and LaoWan TAKAHASHI TM200+ Uranus-C
The camera Uranus-C is also very good for lunar and planetary imaging, its large 1/1.2" sensor can make mosaic moon more efficient.
Moon phase, photo by Stephane Gonza , 300mm Newtonian, camera Uranus-C .
Photo by Damian Peach, Post-processing by Ian Sharp, C14HD+ camera Uranus-C
Photo by Ecleido Azevedo
Somatic features:
The naming of the Player One Astronomy cameras is unique. The planetary camera line, the naming depends on the size of the planets, Mars (1/3"), Neptune (1/2"), Uranus (1/1.2"), Saturn (1"), Jupiter (4/3") ).
Driver and software downloads: http://player-one-astronomy.com/service/software/
Manual downloads: http://player-one-astronomy.com/service/manuals/
Cutting-edge design
The planetary cameras developed by Player One Astronomy use a scientific and technological regular hexagon to construct the main body line, complemented by round bevels to achieve both rigidity and flexibility. The positive red, which is like a summer fire, is matched with the restrained and steady black, and the super-fine frosting process all over the surface makes the camera look luxurious and cool, highlighting the style of high-end players, I can't help but avert your eyes 😀
2nd generation – Sensor tilt plate
When taking deepsky objects, using the sensor's tilt plate you can achieve a much smaller field curvature of the telescope.
Built-in high-density sponge shade pad can block light from side slits without side leakage.
Passive cooling system
Player One adds a new feature called Passive Cooling System to conduct heat from the sensor to the outside.
256 MB DDR3 cache
Player One astronomical cameras are the first to adopt DDR3 cache in all planetary cameras in the world! Helps stabilize and protect data transmission, effectively avoid frame dropping, and greatly reduce reading noise.
With DDR3 cache, the camera no longer has high processing demands, it will still have excellent performance even if it is connected to a USB 2.0 port.
DPS technology
Player One Astronomy's planetary cameras have DPS (Dead Pixel Suppression) technology. DPS analyzes many dark frames to discover those fixed anomalous pixels and record the map into the camera's memory. In imaging, each exposure frame, the location of the dead pixels will be assigned a median value based on the active pixels around that abnormal pixel.
Overvoltage and overcurrent protection mechanism
Player One cameras manufactured by us ensure the safety of the camera and other equipment through over-voltage and over-current protection mechanisms.
Data port
When the camera is connected to USB3.0 interface and full resolution preview is used, it can reach 47 FPS in RAW8 mode (10-bit ADC). When recording images, because the actual writing speed will be affected by the writing speed of the hard disk itself, when the writing speed of the hard disk is slow, recording may not reach the theoretical speed. It is recommended to use a high-quality solid-state drive to record data and give full playback to the camera's performance.
Use the ST4 guide cable to connect the camera and the AUTO GUIDE port of the equatorial mount to perform guidance.
Performance
HCG open at gain=180.
Reading noise
Regarding read noise, we solemnly promise that all values are obtained from real tests. And for users, you can use Sharpcap 4 for testing. SC4 has a function called Sensor Analysis , provides a very simple way to test read noise.
We have written a tutorial on our site: https://player-one-astronomy.com/service/manuals/
If you are interested in reading noise testing, you can try it yourself, which is very simple.
QE curve
This relative QE curve is provided by SONY Co., Ltd. This data is authentic and authoritative!
Mechanical drawing
