Capture Breathtaking Astrophotography with Player One Ceres-M Mono Camera
Elevate your astrophotography game with Player One's Ceres-M Mono Camera. Designed for the discerning astrophotographer, this monochrome marvel delivers exceptional image quality and sensitivity, allowing you to capture breathtaking images of the cosmos with stunning clarity and detail.
Unleash Your Creativity with Player One's Ceres-M Mono Camera
Unleash your creativity and explore the depths of the universe with Player One's Ceres-M Mono Camera. With its high sensitivity and monochrome sensor, this camera offers unparalleled versatility for capturing astrophotography images that showcase the wonders of the night sky in exquisite detail. Whether you're a seasoned astrophotographer or a beginner, the Ceres-M camera empowers you to express your artistic vision and push the boundaries of what's possible in astrophotography.
Capture the Beauty of the Cosmos in Monochrome with Player One's Ceres-M Mono Camera
Experience the mesmerizing beauty of the universe in monochrome with Player One's Ceres-M Mono Camera. This camera's exceptional image quality and sensitivity allow you to capture the intricate details of celestial objects with stunning clarity and contrast. From capturing the subtle shades of nebulae to revealing the delicate features of planets and star clusters, the Ceres-M camera empowers you to capture the raw beauty of the cosmos in monochrome, unleashing your creative potential like never before.
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.
Product Description
Ceres-M is a guiding camera developed by Player One Astronomy, which adopts the Aptina AR0130 1/3” format sensor. The 3.75um pixel size accommodates a well depth of 18ke with a total of 1.2MP (the resolution is 1280*960), and the diagonal is 6mm.
Highlights
Dwarf planet series integrated USB3.0 data port(500Mb/s), which can provide over 10 times speed than USB2.0 device(60Mb/s). Whatever you wants to do guiding or imaging, this camera series can handle it very well.
Dwarf planet camera diameter is 1.25″, it can slide in 1.25″ holder of guiding scope, makes the whole setup shorter.
With a 5-100MM CS lens attached on the camera, it also can be used as a guider or finder.
Features:
The naming of Player One guiding cameras is interesting. Guiding camera is smaller than planetary camera, that’s why we choose dwarf planets to name it.
The size of each dwarf planet to a certain extent represents the size of camera sensors. We will name Ceres with a 1/3″ sensor camera, and for Xena, we will name it with a 1/1.2 inch sensor camera. All names will be engraved on the housing of the cameras.
Cutting-edge Design
The guiding cameras developed by Player One Astronomy uses technological regular hexagon to construct the main body line.
DPS technology
The guiding cameras from Player One Astronomy have DPS (Dead Pixel Suppression) technology. The DPS is anaylse many dark frames to find out thoes fixed abnormal pixel and record the map in camera memory. In imaging, each exposure frames, thoes position of dead pixels will be given a median value according to the active pixels around that abnormal pixel.
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.
Data Port
When the camera is connected to the USB3.0 interface and full-resolution preview is used, it can reach 65 FPS in RAW8 mode (10bit ADC). 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 guiding.
Performance
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.
After many rigorous readout noise tests, the Ceres-M camera can reach a low readout noise of 3.6e at a gain of 200.
If you are interested in readout noise testing, you may try it yourself, which is very simple.
QE Curve
Mechanical Drawing
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)
Is the Player One Ceres-M good for planetary imaging?
Yes. With its sensitive monochrome Aptina AR0130 sensor and fast USB 3.0 transfer, the Ceres-M excels for high-contrast planetary and Lunar imaging.
What sensor does the Ceres-M use?
The Ceres-M uses the Aptina AR0130 1/3″ monochrome CMOS sensor with 3.75 µm pixels, ~1.2 MP (1280×960) resolution and a ~6 mm diagonal.
How fast is the camera?
When connected via USB 3.0, the Ceres-M can reach up to ~65 FPS in RAW8 mode (10-bit ADC), depending on capture settings and drive speed.
Can I use the Ceres-M for guiding?
Absolutely. It includes an ST4 guiding port and works with popular guiding software such as PHD2 and N.I.N.A.
What software is compatible?
The camera works with SharpCap, FireCapture, N.I.N.A., and most ASCOM/native-driver applications.
Does it need external power?
No external power is required — the Ceres-M is USB-powered via the USB 3.0 port.
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