PLAYER ONE monochrome Xena-M USB3.0 (IMX249) guidance camera

Xena-M is a camera-guide developed by Player One Astronomy, which adopts the Sony IMX249 format sensor1/1.2".Thepixel size of 5.86um will beAdapts to a well depth of32keWith a total of2.3MP(resolution is 1936*1216)yThe diagonal is13.3mm.

This IMX249 sensor has the same performance as the IMX174 sensor, the transmission speed of IMX249 is 48 fps.

Data portIntegrated USB 3.0dwarf planet series(500 Mb/s) , which can provide moreof 10 times the speedThan the USB 2.0 device (60 Mb/s).Regardless of what you want to do, guide or generate images, this camera series can handle it very well.

The dwarf planet camera diameter is 1.25″, it can be slid into a 1.25″ adapter from the guide scope, making the entire configuration shorter.

With a 5-100 mm CS lens attached to the camera, it can also be used as a guide or finder.

The name of the player one guidance chambers is interesting.The guide chamber is smaller than the planetary chamber, which is why we chose dwarf planets to name it.

The size of each dwarf planet to some extent represents the size of the camera sensors.We will name Ceres with a 1/3″ sensor camera, and for Xena, we will name her with a 1/1.2-inch sensor camera.All names will be engraved on the camera housing.

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The guide cameras developed by Player One Astronomy use a regular technological hexagon to build the main body line.

The Nova Boosting technology of Player One Astronomy uses hardware technology to accelerate the sensor frequency and then increase the FPS of the sensor.The official speed of the IMX249 sensor on Sony's website is 30FPS, some cameras with IMX249 camera only have 22FPS.But with Nova Boosting technology, our Xena-M (IMX249) camera can reach 48FPS.NB technology made Xena-M fast enough to obtain solar, lunar and planetary images.This technology is also used in our other cameras.

The guide chambers of Player One Astronomy have DPS (Dead Pixel Suppression) technology.The DPS analyzes many dark frames to discover the repaired abnormal pixels and record the map in the camera's memory.In image capture, each exposure frame, the position of dead pixels will receive an average value according to the active pixels around that abnormal pixel.

Player One cameras produced by Player One ensure the safety of your camera and other equipment through overvoltage and overcurrent protection mechanisms.

When the camera is connected to the USB3.0 interface and the full resolution preview is used, it can reach 48 FPS in RAW8 mode (10-bit ADC).When recording images, since the actual writing speed will be affected by the writing speed of the hard disk itself, when the writing speed of the hard disk 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 and take full advantage of the camera's performance.

Use the ST4 guide cable to connect the camera and the AUTO GUIDE port of the equatorial mount for guiding.

With respect to read noise, we solemnly promise that all values are obtained from real tests.And for users, you can use Sharpcap 4 for testing.SC4 has a function calledSensor analysisProvides a very simple way to test the reading noise.

We wrote a tutorial on our website:https://player-one-astronomy.com/service/manuals/

After many rigorous read noise tests, the Xena-M camera can achieve a low read noise of 3.57e with a gain of 350.

If you are interested in the read noise test, you can try it yourself, which is very simple.

The Xena-M camera has a maximum QE of 77%.