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Xena Camera Manual Xena-M Camera Manual V1.0 Dec, 2024...
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Xena Camera Manual Table of Contests Product Features ..........................3 Technical parameters ........................4 Product Description ........................5 Cutting-edge Design ....................5 Nova Boosting technology ..................6 DPS technology ......................6 Overvoltage and overcurrent protection mechanism........7 Data Port ...........................7 Performance ............................8 Readout Noise ........................9 QE Curve ..........................9 Mechanical Drawing ........................
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Xena Camera Manual Product Features Player One Astronomy guiding camera series, AKA Dwarf Planet Series, is design for guiding and imaging. This series including 3 sub-series, Ceres, Sedna and Xena.
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Xena Camera Manual Technical parameters Sensor SONY IMX249 1/1.2" CMOS (mono) Diagonal 13.3mm 2.3 Mega Pixels Total Pixels 1936×1216 Max Resolution 5.86μm Pixel Size 11.3×7.1mm Chip Size Frame Rate 48FPS(10bit) Global shutter Shutter 32μs-2000s Exposure Range 6.0e – 3.5e Readout Noise ≈77% QE Peak Full Well...
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Xena Camera Manual Product Description Xena-M is a guiding camera developed by Player One Astronomy, which adopts the Sony IMX249 1/1.2” format sensor. The 5.86um pixel size accommodates a well depth of 32ke with a total of 2.3MP (the resolution is 1936*1216), and the diagonal is 13.3mm.
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IMX249 sensor on Sony website is 30FPS, some camera with IMX249 camera only has 22FPS. But with Nova Boosting technology, our Xena-M (IMX249) camera can reach 48FPS. NB technology made Xena-M is fast enough for solar, lunar and planetary imaging. This technology is also used on our other cameras too.
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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.
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We wrote a tutorial on our website: https://player-one-astronomy.com/service/manuals/ After many rigorous readout noise tests, the Xena-M camera can reach a low readout noise of 3.57e at a gain of 350. If you are interested in readout noise testing, you may try it yourself, which is very simple.
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For best experiences, we recommend customers to purchase our products form local dealers. After-sales Service Warranty Policy 2-year free warranty (time start from delivered) for Player One products. If the product has any issue, please send the image or video and description to support@player-one- astronomy.com for further check to confirm. ...
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