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- Page 1 SkyEye24AC UserManual SkyEye24AC User Manual Version 2.1 Apr 2024 All materials related to this publication are subject to change without notice and its copyright totally belongs to ToupTek Photonics. Please download the latest version from touptek-astro.com.
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Page 2: Table Of Contents
SkyEye24AC UserManual Contents SkyEye24AC User Manual ............................1 Description and Features............................2 SkyEye24AC Specifications and Performance ....................3 Camera Specifications ............................. 3 Sony IMX410 Sensitivity ..........................4 14Bit ADC and ROI............................4 DDR3 Buffer..............................4 Binning ................................4 Conversion Gain Switch ..........................4 Power and Cooling System for Precise Temperature Regulation .............. -
Page 3: Description And Features
SkyEye24AC UserManual 1 Description and Features With full frame sensor, precise temperature regulation, ultra-low readout noise and zero amp-glow, The SkyEye24AC camera is mainly used for deep sky photo shooting. Its extraordinary performance and extensive usage will give you great astrophotography experience. -
Page 4: Skyeye24Ac Specifications And Performance
SkyEye24AC UserManual 2 SkyEye24AC Specifications and Performance 2.1 Camera Specifications Table 1 SkyEye24AC Technique Specifications. Item Specifications Sensor Sony IMX410 Color CMOS Diagonal 43.3 mm Image Resolution 24 mega pixels, 6064 4040 5.94m 5.94m Pixel Size 36.02mm 23.998mm... -
Page 5: Sony Imx410 Sensitivity
2.3 14Bit ADC and ROI The SkyEye24AC has built in 14bit ADC. It also has 12bit output mode for hardware binning and smaller resolution. The camera also supports hardware ROI, and the smaller the ROI size is, the faster frame rate is. -
Page 6: Power And Cooling System For Precise Temperature Regulation
2.8 Zero Amp-Glow The SkyEye24AC has been carefully designed and is able to achieve zero amp-glow photo shooting. Figure 3 Amp-glow. and Figure 4 show the different cameras at 20C and 5-minute exposure time with and without amp-glow. One can find that SkyEye24AC captured image has zero amp-glow. - Page 7 ������(�������� ����������) = 100 × 10 SkyEye24AC has a significantly low read noise: 4.48 – 0.68e-. It is more impressive that this camera comes with low noise mode, which means users could get even lower readout noise by selecting low noise mode while the frame rate only drops a...
- Page 8 0.55 0.52 0.49 0.42 0.39 Full Well (ke-) 12.7 8.81 5.05 2.02 1.28 0.51 0.32 0.21 0.15 DR (stop) 13.66 13.02 12.41 11.78 11.18 10.61 10.02 9.54 9.08 8.97 Figure 5 e-/ADU, Read Noise, Full Well, Dynamic Range for SkyEye24AC...
- Page 9 3.36 3.14 2.55 1.95 Full Well(ke-) 65.8 41.5 26.2 16.6 10.5 6.61 4.19 2.63 1.67 1.06 0.76 DR(stop) 13.96 13.24 12.62 12.03 11.43 10.83 10.22 9.61 9.05 8.70 8.61 Figure 6 e-/ADU, Read Noise, Full Well, Dynamic Range for SkyEye24AC...
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Page 10: Product Package And Connections
High-Speed USB3.0 A male to B male gold-plated connectors cable /1.5m CD (Driver & utilities software, Ø12cm) Hex wrench H 2.0 M54M-M48F 21mm extender M48M-M48F 16.5mm extender M48M-M42F adapter 3.2 Camera Dimension and Its Mount Figure 8 Dimension and Mount of SkyEye24AC... -
Page 11: Camera Outline And Interface
3.4 Camera Mechanical Connection with Adapter The SkyEye24AC can be connected to a telescope with proper adapter, or the camera lens. The most common adapters are already included in the package, but we also provide some specific adaptors based on the requirement. -
Page 12: Camera Mechanical Connection With Lens
SkyEye24AC UserManual Figure 10 The Connection of the SkyEye Camera and Adapter Table 8 Camera and Its Adapter Connections Item Specification Protective window, 39 27 1.1mm, AR window for mono camera, IR-CUT for color camera Back Focal Distance M54M-M48F 21mm extender 21mm with M48Fx0.75mm for M48M... -
Page 13: Camera Tilt Adjustment
SkyEye camera with M54Fx0.75 mount 3.6 Camera Tilt Adjustment SkyEye24AC has the tilt adjustment ability. There are 3 sets of screws that can be used to tilt the sensor, making it parallel with the telescope, two screws per set for screw in /out. - Page 14 SkyEye24AC UserManual Figure 13 Camera Electric Connection...
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Page 15: Skyeye24Ac And Its Software
SDK, customers can also download the software driver from our website and install the drivers into the third-party software. ToupSky is ToupTek astronomy camera's Windows application. ToupSky is a professional software integrated with camera control, image capture & process, image browse, and analysis functions. ToupSky was born with the following features: Windows: ⚫... -
Page 16: Professional Camera Control Panel
SkyEye24AC UserManual Figure 15 ToupSky Browse Window 4.1.2 Professional Camera Control Panel Capture & Resolution Set the live and snap resolution and snap the image or record video; Exposure & Gain Auto exposure (exposure target preset) and manual exposure (exposure time can be inputted manually); Up to 5 times gain;... -
Page 17: Powerful Compatibility
CD-ROM 4.2 SkyEye24AC and Dshow ToupTekDshowAstroSetup (Click the left blue link to download) DshowAstro is an interface driver providing Dshow standard support for ToupTek USB astronomy camera Supported OS: Windows: ⚫ x86: XP SP3 or above; CPU supports SSE2 instruction set or above ⚫... -
Page 18: Phd Guiding
4.3.3 PHD Guiding A popular free guide software: http://openphdguiding.org/ ToupTek’s telescope camera support Native/ASCOM/WDM driver to run the video. 4.3.4 Nebulosity A popular cooled camera control/image process software directly supported via ASCOM. 4.3.5 MetaGuide Autoguiding software with novel method to avoid the atmospheric agitation. The latest version support GCMOS01200KPB and the guide port: http://www.astrogeeks.com/Bliss/MetaGuide/... -
Page 19: Faq
SkyEye24AC UserManual 5 FAQ IMX410 sensor might display image with uneven shading, which is decreasing horizontally. According to Sony, IMX410 sensor allows Horizontal Dark Shading smaller than 4.5 LSB. There are 3 possible reasons behind this characteristic. First, due to the full frame size of the sensor, the internal circuit logic is more complicated, which makes much more difficult to supply identical power. -
Page 20: Seivice
SkyEye24AC UserManual 6 Seivice For software upgrades, please refer to “Download” on our official website: https://ToupTek-astro.com// For customers who purchase the cameras from local dealer, please contact your dealer for more inquiry. For technical support, please contact e-mail address: astro@ToupTek.com...
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