$400 POSTED AUSTRALIA WIDE
Bought from Bintel September 2013. Inclusive in the sale is the CCD and USB cable (as pictured). These are now very hard to find in Australia and Bintel now only stock the lower resolution model for a much higher price.
I has had good use over the past couple of years but still functions like new.
Software/drivers are available online
http://www.theimagingsource.com/en_U...ucts/software/
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The Imaging Source DBK 41AU02.AS
Color USB astronomy camera without IR cut filter.
- 1/2 " CCD, Sony ICX205AK (progressive scan).
- Resolution 1280 x 960 pixels.
- Up to 15 FPS and 60 minutes exposure.
- C/CS mount.
- Software included.
Recommended Retail Price
$570.00
excludes shipping & sales tax
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Resolution of 1280 x 960 Pixels
With its native resolution of 1280 x 960 pixels, the DBK 41AU02.AS is ideally suited to capture highly detailed images of the night sky. The camera ships with
IC Capture.AS, a comprehensive software package with which you can capture lossless and uncompressed images sequences and write them to disk as AVI files, or as a series of singular bitmaps.
Color Interpolation
For visualization applications, it does not make sense to view the RAW image stream from the CCD chip. It must be interpolated, before it may be viewed or saved in common formats.
IC Capture.AS perform color interpolation, thus reducing the load on the DBK 41AU02.AS's processor. Should, on the other hand, you prefer that the camera itself performs color interpolation, you can select the appropriate option in
IC Capture.AS. This enables the transfer of data to reach the camera's maximum of 15 FPS. Finally, if you do not require color interpolation at all, you can turn it off completely and the image stream is written to disk in RAW format.
Sony ICX205AK 1/2 " CCD Chip
The DBK 41AU02.AS ships with the color Sony ICX205AK progressive scan CCD chip. With its 1/2 " format, the CCD chip produces a resolution of 1280 x 960 pixels. Even at very long exposure times - up to 60 minutes exposure are possible - noise is minimal. Thanks to this extremely high quality, the Sony ICX205AK CCD chip is also often used in other scientific, industrial and medical image processing applications.
No Compression, No IR Cut Filter
The DBK 41AU02.AS does not compress the video stream it outputs - the video data that is captured by the CCD chip is outputted directly by the USB connector. Similarly, the camera does not have an IR cut filter, a color filter, nor an other kind of electronic filter. The camera is, therefore, ideally suited to capturing very true-to-life images of the night sky.
High Speed Data Transfer Via USB
In order to transfer the vast amount of data created by the stream of uncompressed and lossless color images to the host PC, you need a very high speed bus. Hence, the DBK 41AU02.AS is fitted with a fast USB connector.
