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Planetary imaging and guiding camera from Astromania - the key to successful planetary photos
The Astromania SGCMOS Series Telescope CMOS Camera - Multicolour Imaging is a highly sensitive planetary camera which can turn you into a successful planetary photographer. The heart of this camera is a sensitive and low-noise CMOS chip. An optimal launching pad for sharp and high-resolution planetary imaging. But this camera can also be used to guide via a guide star.
ST4 Autoguider Port
Software and drivers on CD-Romand works with ASCOM plate form. You can use the computer to control telescope mounts have an autoguiding port that connects directly to the autoguider (usually referred to as an ST-4 port, which works with analog signals).
Heat Dissipation Design
With a unique internal heat dissipation structure, it can obtain very good picture quality under long-term exposure.
Astromania SGCMOS series telescope CMOS camera
The guiding CMOS camera adopts ultra-high performance CMOS sensor as the image-picking device. USB2.0 is used as the data transfer interface. A built-in ST4 auto guider port is designed for the easy connection of the auto guider. Aluminum CNC housing with standard 1.25 inch interface (outer) to fit to telescope eyepiece and standard C-mount (inner) for standard industrial lens. The SGCMOS camera can be widely used in astrophotography.
The advantages in a nutshell:
- Highly sensitive MT9M034(M)
- Large field of view and high 1.2 MP resolution
- Perfect tracking for astronomy photos - ST4 autoguider port
- Software and drivers on CD-Rom
- C-mount connection
The Robust Metal Housing Is Made of Black, Anodized Aluminium
It not only looks solid, but is very sturdy. A milled and knurled focusing ring allows straightforward and precise fine focusing. It comes with matching tube clamps and a Synta-style mounting plate to make assembly and disassembly as simple as possible. A brass ring design-prevent the marring of your telescope accessories. Overall fine workmanship, is a good choice for you!
Attaching the Guide Scope:
The 50mm Multi-Use Guide Scope’s mounting bracket has a Vixenstyle dovetail bar that can be mounted to your telescope in different ways. First, it fits the standard dovetail finder scope base included on many telescopes. Simply slide it into the dovetail base, then tighten the thumbscrew on the base to secure the guide scope in place.
The bracket’s dovetail bar has one ¼"-20 (center) for attachment to an optional universal dovetail plate. In the guidescope is mounted on a telescope.
Another method of attachment:
Bolt the guide scope bracket to an optional universal dovetail plate, which you mount on top of your telescope. The mounting bar has three threaded through-holes: the center hole has ¼"-20 threads. To attach the guide scope bracket to a universal dovetail plate, one way would be to insert a ¼"-20 socket head capscrew of proper length up through the dovetail plate and into the center hole of the bracket’s dovetail bar. Tighten the bolt firmly with an Allen wrench. Then install the universal plate onto your telescope’s tube rings or radius blocks.
Barbara G. Harris
Reviewed in the United States on March 28, 2022
This is a very nice setup for autoguiding. I use it with PHD2 and it guides very well (select Altair 2015/2016 as the camera in PHD2). I love the helical focuser. Easy to focus. Attached is an image with this camera/guidescope of the M57 field.
Christopher R.
Reviewed in the United States on June 14, 2021
Decent size and still light weight. Easy to set up and use. Works best if used a touch out of focus, gives the star a better feature for guiding
Woodmoose
Reviewed in the United States on March 16, 2021
Don’t waste your money you won’t be happy
J.V.B
Reviewed in the United States on July 8, 2020
Simple to use but did not like the software or support that it came with.
Elise Tomasello
Reviewed in the United States on July 29, 2020
I bought this for my husband and he's very happy with it.
rubber duck
Reviewed in the United States on September 5, 2019
Tried to used it about 5 times, got it focussed 3 times, haven't been able to track my mount even a single time! Calibration keeps failing - not sure if it is a mount problem (a brand new HEQ5 Pro) or the guide pulses from the camera.Pros:1. cheap2. can probably do what it is supposed to doCons:1. the dovetail is not a standard finder scope mount size and does not stay fit2. Camera is a no-name, no manufacturer cheap. But it works .... if you get it into focus (see below)3. took me 6 months to figure out the following:a) no camera drivers - apparently uses "Toupek Camera driver" on Windows and Mac. Works well with his driver.b) comes with a CD - something I have not seen in my computers in the last 5 years!!! seriously, who uses CDs anymore? No downloads online?c) bad focussing - the helical focuser is a great feature. However, there is an incredible amount of back-focus. The camera needs to be placed in with only about 1cm of it inside the scope tube. Otherwise, you can't get it to focus. Then spend about 15min playing with the focuser. - seriously takes more time to focus this (15-20min) than to setup all my other gear (10-15min) including polar alignment. This tells me that this design has no "engineering" behind it, but rather a crude put together scope.d) the focuser locking know broke in only "5" uses. not usable anymore, out of return time even though I have only used it 5 times!Lesson: you get what you pay for.
stacey
Reviewed in the United States on April 23, 2019
Works amazing, my son has been taking deep space pictures!
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