Mars-C is a planetary
camera developed by Player One Astronomy, which adopts the Sony IMX462 1/2.8” format sensor. The 2.9um pixel size accommodates a well depth
of 12ke with a total of 2.1MP (the resolution is 1936*1096), and the diagonal is 6.46 mm.
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. We will name Saturn with a 1-inch sensor
camera, and for Mars, we will name it with a ½.8 inch sensor camera. All names
will be engraved on the housing of the cameras.
Planetary camera Mars-C Highlights
Mars-C has super high
sensitivity and ultra-low readout noise. All of these features provide users
with excellent performance for planetary imaging, like Mars, Jupiter,
Saturn, as well as solar and lunar imaging.
The fun thing is, with
the strong ability in capturing infrared lights and the super-high sensitivity,
the Mars-C camera can be used as a monochrome camera with an IR850 filter or
CH4 filter to capture infrared lights. Connecting the Mars-C camera to a
telescope with a 1.25? T-Mount, or adding a Barlow lens between the camera and
a telescope to extend the focal length for more details. With a CS lens
attached to the Mars-C camera, it can be used as an all-day camera or meteor
monitoring camera.
Planetary camera Mars-C Features
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, which is like a summer
fire, is matched with the low-key and steady black, and the super-fine frosting
process on the entire surface makes the camera look luxurious and cool.
Sensor Tilt Plate
When taking solar
photography with a prominence telescope, the Newton ring is
annoying. A smoother solar image without a Newton ring could be taken by
adjusting the focal plate. Besides, when you use a planetary camera for
deep-sky lucky imaging, if
When taking solar
photography with a prominence telescope, the Newton ring is
annoying. A smoother solar image without a Newton ring could be taken by
adjusting the focal plate. Besides, when you use a planetary camera for
deep-sky lucky imaging, if you find the surrounding stars are not perfect, you
can adjust the sensor tilt plate to obtain a flatter image field. 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.
256M DDR3 Cache
Player One Astronomy
cameras are the first ones who 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 read noise.
With the DDR3 cache, the Mars-C 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,
dead pixels (including both hot pixels and cold pixels) of the image are swept
away. DPS function is turned on during your whole imaging session, no need to
worry about it!
Overvoltage and
overcurrent protection mechanism
Player One cameras
produced by the number one player ensure 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 a full-resolution preview is used, it can
reach 136 FPS in RAW8 mode (10bit ADC), and the frame rate in RAW16 mode (12bit
ADC) is 64 frames per second. 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.
