Player One Saturn-M SQR First Light 10/18/2023 (rigel123)

Player One Saturn-M SQR First Light 10/18/2023

Acquisition type: Lucky imaging

Apologies to those imagers in SW Ohio for the cloudy weather due to me receiving my new camera! Really happy with this camera for use with my Lunt LS60T and Orion ED80T for Ha and CaK imaging. Skies were not perfect for the evaluation but the main discoveries were (1) no evidence of Newton Rings even when used with a 2X Barlow (2) very clean images (3) consistent fps. The camera comes in a very handsome package and is well put together. I did have to search for the driver on Player One's website but once I downloaded that and installed the newest version of Firecapture all went well. I was getting 40 fps at full resolution and 99fps with an ROI of 1648 X 1364 pixels. The chip is huge and I can fit a full disk in using a 2X barlow to match maximum sampling for the chip. This of course results in much better resolution on my full disk images.

I have some tweaking to do when using the Lunt with the DS unit since the FOV for the full disk covers the entire chip and I see some banding as well as some areas that are off band when using the 2X barlow. Still, very happy with the results and I can see this becoming my full time camera for both full disk images as well as animations. Particularly due to the lack of any evidence of Newton Rings at all.

Including some FD shots as well as two animations in this post.

B

Description: Conditions when I started the evaluation. The skies did clear for the most part although some high passing clouds did mess with the animations a bit.

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C

Description: Inverted full disk in Ha

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D

Description: Full Disk in CaK with Orion ED80T and Lunt BF1200 CaK module

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E

Description: Animation of SE Limb, 1 hour 8 minutes in real time

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F

Description: NW Limb Animation, 15 minutes in real time

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Solar system
Extremely wide field
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Amateur hosting facility
Public amaeteur data
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Mix of multiple sources
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