Caméra Saturne-M with IMC533

Saturn-M SQR and Saturn-C SQR is the most powerful planetary camera in our history! Based on IMX533 BSI sensor, high image quality, high resolution and square format, non-amp-glow feature, the camera will be great for lunar, solar mosaic and DSO lucky imaging.

Saturn-M SQR (IMX533) camera is developed by Player One Astronomy, SQR means its sensor is square. Saturn-M SQR camera, which adopts Sony IMX533 1” square format monochrome sensor. The 3.76um pixel size accommodates a well depth of 73Ke with a total of 9MP  (the resolution is 3008*3008), and the diagonal is 16mm.

STARVIS Technology

Saturn-C SQR (IMX533) camera based on Sony STARVIS technology, it is back-illuminated pixel technology used in CMOS image sensors.

Format

Saturn-C SQR camera has 1″ format, this size is quite big for imaging.

Extend Full well Capacity

Based on our technology, we improved the full well of Saturn-M SQR camera to 73Ke , it’s almost 1.5 times than IMX533 Basic (50ke).

High Frame rate

Based on our technology Saturn-M SQR camera can run 43FPS under RAW8 mode, that’s much faster than existing models on market.

Dual Sampling Mode

Saturn SQR series has dual sampling mode. Nromal mode and LRN mode, they has different advantages in imaging.

1. Normal mode has faster FPS, it is more suitable for planetary imaging.

2. LRN (low readout noise) mode has lower readout noise and higher dynamic range. it is more suitable for DSO lucky imaging.

Non-Amp-Glow

Dark frame of Saturn-C SQR (IMX533) camera is totally “dark”, that’s we called it “Non-Amp-Glow” camera!
300s dark frame of Saturn-C SQR camera(resize to 50%):

Non-Amp-Glow can give us very clean background, much easier to get high quaility images.

Saturn SQR camera also very good for lunar and planetary imaging, its 1″ big format and 9MP total pixels, easier to capture full disk of the Moon and the Sun, or make mosaic more efficient.

2nd Gen – Sensor Tilt Plate

When taking solar photograph with prominence telescope, the Newton ring is annoying. Smoother solar image without Newton ring could be taken by adjusting the focal plate. Get a much smaller field curvature of the telescope.

256M DDR3 Cache

Player One Astronomy cameras are the first one who adpots the DDR3 cache in all planetary cameras in the world! It helps stabilize and secure data transmission, it effectively avoids frame dropping and greatly reduces readnoise.

With the DDR3 cache, the camera does not have high demands on computing needs any longer, it will still has excellent performance even if it is connected to a USB 2.0 port.

DPS technology

The planetary cameras from Player One Astronomy have DPS (Dead Pixel Suppression) technology. The DPS is anaylse many dark frames to find out thoes fixed abnormal pixel and record the map in camera memory. In imaging, each exposure frames, thoes position of dead pixels will be given a median value according to the active pixels around that abnormal pixel.

Passive Cooling System

Solar cameras working in daylight, temperature could be much higher than night. Heat of global shutter sensors will be a problem, especially some big format like IMX432. Player One add a new feature called Passive Cooling System to conduct the heat from the sensor out.

Overvoltage and overcurrent protection mechanism

Player One cameras produced by the number one player ensures the safety of your camera and other equipment through overvoltage and overcurrent protection mechanisms.

Data Port

When the camera is connected to the USB3.0 interface and full-resolution preview is used, it can reach 164 FPS in RAW8 mode (10bit ADC). When recording images, since the actual writing speed will be affected by the writing speed of the hard disk itself, when the hard disk writing speed is slow, the recording may not reach the theoretical speed. It is recommended that you use a high-quality solid state drive to record data to give full play to the performance of the camera.

Use the ST4 guide cable to connect the camera and the AUTO GUIDE port of the equatorial mount to do guiding.

Performance

HCG open at gain=125. Saturn SQR series has dual sampling mode, Standard mode has faster fps, LRN (low readout noise) mode has lower readout noise and higher dynamic range.

Readout Noise

Regarding readout noise, we solemnly promise that all values are obtained from actual tests.  And for users, you could use Sharpcap 4 for testing. SC4 has a function called Sensor Analysis, provide a very simple way to test readout noise.

If you are interested in readout noise testing, you may try it yourself, which is very simple.

Absolute QE Curve

Download

• Drivers Downloads: http://player-one-astronomy.com/service/software/
• Manual Download: http://player-one-astronomy.com/service/manuals/

Caractéristics

• Sensor: New SONY IMX533 1" CMOS (Mono)
• Diagonal: 16mm
• Total Pixels: 9 Mega Pixels
• Max Resolution: 3008×3008
• Pixel Size: 3.76μm
• Chip Size: 11.31mm×11.31mm
• Frame Rate: 43FPS（10bit）
• Exposure Range: 32μs-2000s
• Shutter: Rolling Shutter
• Readout Noise: 4.46-1e
• QE Peak: ≈91%
• Full Well: 73k e
• ADC: 14 bit
• Data Port: USB3.0/USB2.0
• Adapter: 1.25″ / M42X0.75
• Back Focal Length: 12.5mm
• Protective Window: D32*2MM High Quality AR Plus (Anti Reflection) Multi-Layer Coating
• Diameter: 66mm
• Weight: 180g
• Resolution and FPS:
  Under USB3.0 mode
  Resolution 10bit ADC 14bit ADC
  3008×3008 43FPS 21.5FPS
  2560×1440 105FPS 52FPS
  1920×1080 159FPS 73FPS
  1280×720 234FPS 108FPS
  800×600 279FPS 129FPS
  640×480 334FPS 159FPS
  More resolution options could be setup in capture softewares!

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