Whether you're an advanced user or a beginner, you'll love creating beautiful astroimages with the Skyris astronomical CCD camera. Capture the Sun, Moon, and planets like never before and create crisp, high-resolution images. Skyris cameras are the first to offer ultra-fast USB 3.0 connections combined with the most popular Sony CCD chips used for planetary imaging. Skyris also features a Celestron-designed camera body which helps dissipate heat to minimize the effect of thermal noise on the CCD. The Skyris 618M is a monochrome camera, offering you the most senstivity for capturing the best possible astroimages. Either use the camera by itself to capture stunning black-and-white images of the Moon and planets, or attach your own filters and filter wheel to create your own color planetary images.
W**R
Great Planetary Camera!
I am using this camera with an Orion Manual Filter Wheel and Astrodon RGB Filters. As long as the target is bright enough (Jupiter and Mars are) you can use the 120FPS and get enough gain to use all 3 filters. Saturn though I had to drop my FPS way down to 20fps to be able to get all three filters in with enough gain.The software is straightforward and easy to use.I will post a link to some of my images when time allows.Thanks!
2**T
Great for taking up valuable space.
Don't waste your money on this one. celestron tries hard to sell this as a guide camera for use with their off axis guider as well as a planetary imaging camera, despite the tall claims of the manufacturer, I have yet to find ONE thing the camera truly excels at. tried using it with my celestron off-axis guider but the chip is incredibly small making it difficult to find a star to guide on, focusing the guide and imaging camera takes an act of congress ( and many spacers to achieve proper back focus). The results were marginal, not much better than unguided. As far as being a respectable imaging camera well... let's just say it tries. the camera only records 600x900 pixels so don't expect a miracle. Despite it's shortcomings, it's not ALL bad, I took some frames of Jupiter the small display screen for the image was difficult to see under field conditions however, I was able to obtain a fairly good image. The camera is easy to focus when connected to the visual back and the icap software is also pretty user friendly. The camera, as with all of my other Celestron products worked seamlessly with third-party software such as PHD and ASCOM drivers. Overall, wouldn't buy it again for the money. really not a great product. *Please, if anyone from Celestron or Sony reads my review feel free to contact me and I will give you the "down and dirty" of how your product performed- or didn't.
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