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Review by: ubergarm
#tl;dr; i love the sensor, but the included ZWO USB cable barely worked at all!
I tried this camera out on a brand new Windows 11 Laptop with the included USB cable in SharpCap and it kept dropping connection every couple minutes - replacing the cable with a better quality (tested successfully with 3' and 9' cables now) it runs solid like a champ!
The sensor itself has slightly too small of pixels for my 8" F/6 Dob, but I'm going to try a cheap reducer and enable 2x2 binning to get into the 1~2 pixel per arcsecond resolution to try some DSOs. It seems just right in my AT80ED F/7 scope with a wider view; I managed to grab some 50ms exposure @ 500 gain Live Stacks of the Pleiades and the Orion Nebula (w/ Optolon L-eNhance filter) without tracking on a cheap alt-az mount on a camera tripod. It definitely had some graininess at this high of gain but with just a few seconds calculating and applying "Darks" it really cleaned up the noise.
For actual planetary it seems great as it can capture frames of bright objects rapidly. My first night I managed to take a short 4k video of Moon at around 22 frames per second in a 16 bit FITS subs in a SER file. It can grab just over 40FPS in 8bit FITS or RGBA mode and faster at smaller resolutions as well.
https://ubergarm.com/images/moon-with-optolong-l-enhance-filter.mp4
Good luck aspiring drift imagers! (Posted on 2/8/2023)
I tried this camera out on a brand new Windows 11 Laptop with the included USB cable in SharpCap and it kept dropping connection every couple minutes - replacing the cable with a better quality (tested successfully with 3' and 9' cables now) it runs solid like a champ!
The sensor itself has slightly too small of pixels for my 8" F/6 Dob, but I'm going to try a cheap reducer and enable 2x2 binning to get into the 1~2 pixel per arcsecond resolution to try some DSOs. It seems just right in my AT80ED F/7 scope with a wider view; I managed to grab some 50ms exposure @ 500 gain Live Stacks of the Pleiades and the Orion Nebula (w/ Optolon L-eNhance filter) without tracking on a cheap alt-az mount on a camera tripod. It definitely had some graininess at this high of gain but with just a few seconds calculating and applying "Darks" it really cleaned up the noise.
For actual planetary it seems great as it can capture frames of bright objects rapidly. My first night I managed to take a short 4k video of Moon at around 22 frames per second in a 16 bit FITS subs in a SER file. It can grab just over 40FPS in 8bit FITS or RGBA mode and faster at smaller resolutions as well.
https://ubergarm.com/images/moon-with-optolong-l-enhance-filter.mp4
Good luck aspiring drift imagers! (Posted on 2/8/2023)
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