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Mars Camera Manual Mars-C II Camera Manual V1.0 Dec, 2024...
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Mars Camera Manual Table of Contests Product Features ....................3 Technical parameters .................... 4 Product Description ....................5 STARVIS 2 Technology ................5 Extend Full Well Capacity ............... 6 Highlights ....................... 7 Non-Amp-Glow ..................7 Features ........................ 8 Cutting-edge Design ................8 2nd Gen –...
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Mars Camera Manual Product Features Now, a new member join in Mars series, its name is Mars-C II (IMX662) camera. Uranus- C and Mars-C II is not only for planetary imaging, but also very powerful for EAA!
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Mars Camera Manual Technical parameters Sensor New SONY IMX662 1/2.8" CMOS (color) Diagonal 6.44mm Total Pixels 2.1 Mega Pixels Max Resolution 1936×1100 2.9μm Pixel Size 5.6mm×3.2mm Chip Size Frame Rate 1936×1100 108FPS(10bit) Bayer Matrix RGGB Shutter Rolling shutter 32μs-2000s Exposure Range Readout Noise 6.7e~0.7e ≈91%...
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Mars Camera Manual Product Description Mars-C II (IMX662) is a planetary camera developed by Player One Astronomy, which adopts the newest Sony IMX662 1/2.8” format sensor. The 2.9um pixel size accommodates a well depth of 54ke with a total of 2.1MP (the resolution is 1936*1100), and the diagonal is 6.44 mm.
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Mars Camera Manual Extend Full Well Capacity Mars-C II (IMX662) has 54Ke full well, it’s almost 4.5 times than IMX462 (13Ke).
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Mars Camera Manual Highlights Non-Amp-Glow Biggest surprise of Mars-C II (IMX662) camera is, its dark frame is totally “dark”, whatever we strength the curve, there is no AMP glow at all! 300s dark frame of Mars-C II camera (full size): Non-Amp-Glow can give us very clean background, much easier to get high quality images.
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Mars Camera Manual Features The naming of Player One Astronomy cameras is unique. For example, we name the planetary cameras after planets (They are Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, Earth is not included). The size of each planet to a certain extent represents the size of camera sensors.
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256M DDR3 Cache Player One Astronomy cameras are the first one who adopts 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 readout noise.
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Overvoltage and overcurrent protection mechanism Player One cameras produced by us 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,...
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Mars Camera Manual Performance HCG open at gain=210.
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Mars Camera Manual 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. 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 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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