Player One Uranus-C IMX585 8.3MP Color Camera Astronomical Camera + Active Cooling System (ACS)

Player One Uranus-C IMX585 8.3MP Color Camera Astronomical Camera + Active Cooling System (ACS)

Design for Planetary Imaging and EAA & Lucky Imaging!

Tulip, Luke, RASA8 + Uranus-C camera

Uranus-C and Mars-C II is not only for planetary imaging, but also very powerful for EAA & Lucky imaging!


Product Description:
Uranus-C is (IMX585) camera adopts the newest IMX585 1/1.2" format color sensor for Sony. The 2.9um pixel size accommodates a well depth of 47Ke with a total of 8.3MP (the resolution is 3856*2180), and the diagonal is 12.85mm.


Technology for STARVIS 2
Uranus-C (IMX585) and Mars-C II (IMX662) are based on the newest technology for Sony STARVIS 2. It is a back-illuminated pixel technology used in CMOS image sensors.

Format
Uranus-C (IMX585) has 1/1.2" format. This size is quite big for imaging.

Full Well
Uranus-C (IMX585) has 47Ke full well. It's almost 3.6 times IMX485 (13Ke).


Highlights:


Non-Amp-Glow
The biggest surprise of Uranus-C (IMX585) camera is that its dark frame is totally "dark". Whatever we strength the curve, there is no AMP glow at all!

300s dark frame of Uranus-C camera (resize to 50%):

Non-Amp-Glow can give us a very clean background, making it easier to get high quality images.

Recommended Accessories:
ACS (Active Cooling System) is an external air-cooled system, designed for solar and big format planetary cameras with PCS (Passive Cooling System).

ACS can provide much better temperature control. When a camera has PCS + ACS, its temperature is only 7℃ higher than the ambient temperature. The camera body is a little warm but is not hot!

ACS can be used in daylight for solar imaging and used at night for DSO lucky imaging.


User Works Appreciation:

Pelican nebula, Photo by Luke Newbould
RASA8 telescope + Uranus-C (IMX585) camera, 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 TM200 for TAKAHASHI + Uranus-C

Uranus-C camera is also very good for lunar and planetary imaging. Its 1/1.2" big sensor can make mosaic moon more efficient.

Moon Phase, Photo by Stephane Gonza, 300mm Newtonian, Uranus-C camera

Photo by Damian Peach, Post-processing by Ian Sharp, C14HD + Uranus-C camera


Photo by Ecleido Azevedo

Features:
The naming of Player One astronomy cameras is unique. Planetary cameras are named according to the sizes of planets, including Mars (1/3"), Neptune (1/2"), Uranus (1/1.2"), Saturn(1") and Jupiter (4/3").

Download drivers and software: http://player-one-astronomy.com/service/software/
Download manuals: http://player-one-astronomy.com/service/manuals/

Cutting-edge Design
The planetary camera uses a scientific and technological regular hexagon to construct the main body line, supplemented by round chamfers to achieve both rigidity and flexibility. The positive red, which is like a summer fire, is matched with the low-key and steady black. And the super-fine frosting process on the entire surface makes the camera look luxurious and cool, highlighting the style of high-end players.


2nd Gen - Sensor Tilt Plate
When you are taking pictures of deep sky objects, using sensor tilt plate can get a much smaller field curvature of the telescope.


The built-in high-density sponge shading pad can block the light from the side slits without any side leakage.


Passive Cooling System
Player One adds a new feature called Passive Cooling System to conduct the heat from the sensor out.


256M DDR3 Cache
Among planetary cameras, this camera is the first one to adopt the DDR3 cache. It helps stabilize and secure data transmission. It effectively avoids frame dropping and greatly reduces readout noise.

With the DDR3 cache, the camera does not have high demands on computing needs any longer. But it still has an 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 can analyze many dark frames to find out those fixed abnormal pixels and record the map in camera memory. In imaging, each exposure frame and those positions of dead pixels will be given a median value according to the active pixels around those abnormal pixels.


Over-voltage and Over-current Protection Mechanism
The camera ensures the safety of your camera and other equipment through over-voltage and over-current protection mechanisms.

Data Port
When the camera is connected to the USB3.0 interface and full-resolution preview is used, it can reach 47 FPS in RAW8 mode (10bit ADC). When it is recording images, the actual writing speed will be affected by the writing speed of 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 an ST4 guide cable to connect the camera and the AUTO GUIDE port of the equatorial mount to do guiding.


Performance:
HCG open at gain=210.


Readout Noise
Regarding readout noise, we solemnly promise that all values are obtained from actual tests. You can use the software for Sharpcap 4 for testing. SC4 has a function called Sensor Analysis, providing a very simple way to test readout noise.

We wrote a tutorial on our website: https://player-one-astronomy.com/service/manuals/

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

QE Curve
This relative QE curve is provided by the company for SONY. The data is authentic and authoritative!


Mechanical Drawing:

Package Included:
- 1 x Camera & 1.25" T-mount
- 1 x Active cooling system (ACS)
- 1 x 2M USB3.0 cable
- 1 x 2M ST4 cable
- 1 x 1.25" cover
- 1 x Air blower
- 1 x M2 hexagonal wrench

Packaging Details:
- G.W.: 1kg