Before La Niņa turned yet another sour, I had bought a Player One Uranus-C and got to experiment with it for a few nights. It has the same IMX585 sensor. I primarily bought it for planetary but the specs led me to try it for EAA too.
It’s really quite sensitive. My test scope was ~f/4 so my exposures were 30s or less. I didn’t bother using calibration frames, but you could, with a little extra effort. I had a good bit of fun with it.
I chose the Player One as it looked like they paid a bit more attention to thermals, and the camera appeared to track about 5C above ambient. I haven’t had a chance to try it during summer temps yet.
The sensor is basically a 4K security camera sensor, with the widescreen as-ect ratio. The 533 models are a couple of hundred US$ more but the sensor is almost double the size. A couple hundred more gets you a cooled camera, which means you can make calibration frames and be more rigorous. It depends how serious you want to get!
You make your choice, you hand over your hard earned
