Player One Uranus-C (IMX585) USB3.0 Colour Camera

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

Product Description

Uranus-C is (IMX585) camera developed by Player One Astronomy, which adopts the newest Sony IMX 585 1/1.2” format color sensor. The 2.9um pixel size accommodates a good depth of 47Ke with a total of 8.3MP  (the resolution is 3856*2180), and the diagonal is 12.85mm.

STARVIS 2 Technology

Uranus-C (IMX585) and Mars-C II (IMX662) are based on Sony's newest STARVIS 2 technology, which is back-illuminated pixel technology used in CMOS image sensors.

Format

Uranus-C (IMX585) has a 1/1.2″ format, which is quite big for imaging.

Full well

Uranus-C (IMX585) has 47Ke full well, it’s almost 3.6 times more than IMX485 (13Ke).

Highlights

Non-Amp-Glow

The biggest surprise of the Uranus-C (IMX585) camera is that its dark frame is totally “dark”, whatever we strengthen 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 spotless background, making it much 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 which already have PCS (Passive Cooling System).

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

ACS not only can be used in daylight for solar imaging, but it also could be used at night for DSO lucky imaging.

Features:

The naming of Player One Astronomy cameras is unique. Planetary camera line naming depends on the size of the planets, Mars(1/3″), Neptune(1/2″), Uranus(1/1.2″), Saturn(1″), Jupiter(4/3″).

Drivers and software download: http://player-one-astronomy.com/service/software/

Manuals download: 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, supplemented by round chamfers to achieve both rigidity and flexibility. The positive red, similar to a summer fire, is paired with the low-key and steady black, and the super-fine frosting process on the entire surface makes the camera look elegant and cool, highlighting the style of high-end players, so much that you can't take your eyes off!

2nd Gen – Sensor Tilt Plate

When taking deep sky objects, using a 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 added a new feature called Passive Cooling System to conduct the heat from the sensor out.

256M DDR3 Cache

Player One Astronomy cameras are the first ones to adopt the DDR3 cache in all planetary cameras in the world! It helps stabilize and secure data transmission, 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, it will still have 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 analyses many dark frames to find out those fixed abnormal pixels and records the map in camera memory. In imaging, for each exposure frame, those positions of dead pixels will be given a median value according to the active pixels around that abnormal pixel.

Overvoltage and overcurrent protection mechanism

Player One cameras produced by us ensure the safety of your camera and other equipment through overvoltage and overcurrent protection mechanisms.

Data Port

When the camera is connected to the USB 3.0 interface and a full-resolution preview is used, it can reach 47 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 the guiding.

Performance

HCG open at gain=210.

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, which provide a very simple way to test readout noise.

Player One wrote a tutorial on their website: https://player-one-astronomy.com/service/manuals/

If you are interested in readout noise testing, you may 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