Focus on Solar imaging!
Apollo series is the world’s first camera line designed specifically for solar photography, named after Apollo, the god of the Sun.
The Apollo series features Sony sensors with global shutters and a focus on monochrome sensors.
Now, we lanuch 3 models of Apollo cameras:
Apollo-M MAX (IMX432), 1.1 inch sensor, monochrome.
Apollo-M MINI (IMX429), 2/3 inch sensor, monochrome.
Apollo-M (IMX174) , 1/1.2 inch sensor, monochrome.
Apollo-M MAX (IMX432) Camera
Apollo-M MAX is a solar camera developed by Player One Astronomy, which adopts the Sony IMX432 1.1” format sensor. The 9um pixel size accommodates a well depth of 100ke with a total of 1.7MP (the resolution is 1608*1104), and the diagonal is 17.5mm.
IMX432 sensor is based on Pregius 3rd Generation. But IMX432 is quite different. According to the introduction of technical documents, pixel size of 3rd Gen usually is 4.5um, and full well is 25Ke. But this sensor has 9um pixel, and of course the full well up to 4x (100Ke).
Apollo-M MINI (IMX429) Camera
Apollo-M MINI is a solar camera developed by Player One Astronomy, which adopts the Sony IMX429 2/3” format monochrome sensor. The 4.5um pixel size accommodates a well depth of 24.8Ke with a total of 2.8MP (the resolution is 1944*1472), and the diagonal is 11mm.
IMX429 sensor is based on Pregius 3rd Generation. According to the introduction of technical documents, pixel size of 3rd Gen usually is 4.5um, and full well is 25Ke.
Apollo-M (IMX174) Camera
Apollo-M is a solar camera developed by Player One Astronomy, which adopts the Sony IMX174 2/3” format monochrome sensor. The 5.86um pixel size accommodates a well depth of 32Ke with a total of 2.3MP (the resolution is 1944*1216), and the diagonal is 13.3mm.
Apollo-M (IMX174) and Xena-M (IMX249) based on Pregius 1st Gen, it was a gaint leap in CMOS sensor development. IMX174 and IMX249 has same performance, the only difference is IMX174 is faster (164FPS) .
Sale Price of each models:
Apollo-M MAX (IMX432): 599USD
Apollo-M MINI (IMX429): 399USD
Apollo-M (IMX174): 499USD
Do you have x86 SDKs for Windows, Linux, macOS and also ARM Raspberry Pi 32 and 64 bit?
Yes, our SDK including all of them. Here is the download page. https://player-one-astronomy.com/service/software/
Gostaria de saber se a Apollo-M (IMX 174) roda nativamente no Fire Capture?
Would you like to know if Apollo-M (IMX 174) runs natively in Fire Capture?
Astroavani (https://www.astrobin.com/users/astroavani/)
Hi Avani,
We already send the new camera info to Firecapture, I think next beta version will add Apollo series. Now, Planetary camera and guiding camera are supported in FC2.7 06b
Hi Avani, the new models will be supported in near future.
are you sending the info to Sharpcap?
Yes, Sharpcap will support those new cameras very soon.