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The IMX290 chip with a pixel size of 2.9um can capture fine details of astronomical objects. It is also a back-illuminated high quantum efficiency camera, which is very suitable for planetary photography cameras.
ST4 Guiding Port
Built-in ST4 automatic guide port, the camera is easy to connect to the automatic guide. Support PHD2 software and work with ASCOM plate form. You can use a computer to control the telescope mount. The autoguider has a port that connects directly to the autoguider, for analog signal processing.
USB3.0 Interface
Using USB3.0 interface, built-in 128M cache, preview frame rate up to 130fps under 1920*1080 resolution, limited by computer configuration and sharpcap software, the actual test is 40fps, the picture is smooth to ensure that each frame shot is transmitted to the computer without losing frame.
0.7e Ultra-low Readout Noise
The sensor has very high QE and very low 0.7e ultra-low read noise, improving sensitivity in the visible and near-infrared regions for industrial applications.
ADC 12 bit
The SV305 Pro camera offers 8 bit RAW output or 12 bit.
Special Heat Dissipation Structure
The unique heat dissipation design makes the product run more stable. Long-term exposure time during use reduces the noise to a certain extent, resulting in better image quality.
Customer
2025-08-28 15:17:54
Fantastic camera for the price! I use it as both my guide camera and planetary camera. Guiding has been incredible with it attached to a 60mm guide scope on top of my Celestron 8SE. Works great when imaging planets at native f10 and with added 2x or 3x barlows. No issues with NINA or PHD2 when connected via ASCOM and SharpCap recognizes it directly. Only issue I encountered was it kept disconnecting from my imaging software while in use. I realized it only happened when the USB was plugged into my powered USB hub and not when it was plugged directly into my laptop. Not sure why but it’s not a big deal. I’m sure there won’t be any issues once I switch to a setup with a mini PC or Pegasus Powerbox.
Stallionslaughter
2025-07-20 11:53:45
Loved it. Super easy to figure out once you click enough buttons in the software to see what they do, and the results blew anything I've ever done with a cellphone mount out of the sky.
Xavier
2025-06-25 21:20:32
Using a 700mm was a challenge as opposed to the 480mm of the sv48p 90mm scope with a .8 reducer/flattner. The 50mm guiding scope and a AstroStreet 120 sensor 1.2mp wasn't doing it for my new scope. I was not holding on to targets for long.I got the svbony 60mm guiding scope and the sv305pro and what a difference. I was able to hold on a star for all night, well until the clouds showed up. Lol great purchase and it works well.
We Tr
2025-06-14 11:24:33
The SV305 Pro is a great guide camera for astrophotography. That was the only way I use it so I cannot comment about the planetary imaging capability. I would have loved it to be mono rather than color, for my use, but it still tracked stars great.It needs to be connected to a computer to guide. There is a guide port in case you want to use it to directly control your mount, but it also works guiding through the mount's connection to the control computer.
Customer
2025-06-09 14:45:23
For the most part the camera is very easy to use, it takes a bit of tweaking to get it to focus, but once you get it figured out you can take some great pics. I took these on my first day with it.
Rolando F
2025-05-28 18:09:31
It kept dropping the connection to laptop, I used different cables and laptops, I also reinstalled the software several times and it kept dropping the connection. I used sharpcap and phd2 and same errors in both. I saw a spot of dirty or something in the middle of the lens. At the end I use a ZWO camera I have with no problem at all , so I confirmed the problem was the svbony camera. I'm returning it.
BeK
2025-04-02 15:59:12
It seems there are people who own this camera and have had decent results. It was upon that basis that I took the plunge. My experience was not good enough to keep the camera. I need something that works, correctly, and every time. For me, this was not that camera.The behavior was flakey. It would work well for a period of time, then not work at all until it cooled off and was restarted. That's a no go right there. It was unclear if this is a hardware issue or software. I suspect software and drivers, but not sure. AstroDMx showed the bad behavior more often than SharpCap, but neither was rock solid stable with this device. Some examples of issues, changing modes caused the device to lock up more often than not. I tried different USB 3 cables including short ones of extremely high quality -- no change in behavior. Also, mine had a nigh number of hot pixels right in the most frequent area of interest that glowed right away at modest gain. All sensors are likely to show some anomalies at some settings, this one made it unusable, for me. Maybe I received a dud. It happens.Also, customer service may be new at this. They were responsive, and to their credit did try to be helpful. However, they do not appear to have the vocabulary required nor understanding of the needs of an astronomy camera. If you're selling astro gear, you need to understand the domain and the gear in order to support it effectively.If you are a tinkerer and willing to work with it, and do not need to rely on it to be stable, this may be an okay choice,. It is certainly affordable. The build quality was very good, I think, no complaints there at all.If the driver or software issues were resolved, assuming that is the problem, I would likely try the camera again. For now, I just can't sue it. My ZWO cameras, even with their own quirks, work ~100% of the time.
Carlette Hanson
2025-03-03 17:08:34
I don't have much experience with this yet, so I am sure with some effort it is very possible to get much better images than the ones that I attached, especially the one of Saturn since I suck at planetary imaging. It was very easy to connect to SharpCap and there are no problems imaging. I would estimate that, with my 130SLT, the field of view was about 15x27 arcminutes.Edit: Added some new photos, as I predicted, experience with the camera brings great results!
Customer
2025-02-24 21:22:37
Excelente producto, calidad superior, bonito diseño y color, llegó super rápido, gracias!!!!!
Alex D.
2025-02-02 15:08:45
It's my first dedicated camera for a telescope.I'm running this on an older laptop I7-3610QE w/ 8GB.Using AstroDMX. Install/config was a breeze.Where I had some difficulties was focusing the camera with my Celestron Astromaster 90EQ. Without the upright an extension tube is required even with a Barlow. Using the upright made focusing easier but it did cause major fringing.The thing I wasn't prepared for is the annihilation of disk space when capturing. it might be only 2mp but this thing will gobble up 2-3GB/min when you let it loose.
Michael
2025-01-31 12:29:36
Great, just as expected , works well
Dr. Tim Parker
2025-01-06 10:54:14
I hade been using the SVBONY SV305 CCD camera on my Meade telescope (review posted here on Amazon) and was quite impressed with it, but when I saw this Pro version, I had to try it to take advantage of the faster uploads to my laptop. The SC305 Pro is quite a bit different from the standard SV305, but at a higher price, of course. To start with, the presentation of the camera is a lot better with the Pro: you get a nice box, plus a real user manual (instead of a folded piece of paper). At it's heart, it's still the same 2MP CCD and 128MB SSD RAM, but it now supports USB 3.0 and hence communicates faster with the laptop, good for both downloading bunches of images taken in bursts, as well as better guiding when you use the CCD as a guide camera. Software is downloadable for PCs and Linux machines/I tried the SV305 Pro as a guide camera on a few objects, feeding from the CCD to the laptop to the mount of my Meade. In guide mode, it worked really well: identify the guide object (usually a star) and leave the unit alone. For extended exposures, this worked really well. I would not use the 2MP CCD for deep-space imaging, as it simply doesn't have the resolution needed, but as a guide camera it is easy to use and worked perfectly, guiding my 12-inch Meaded for long-term exposures of Messier objects and other deep-sky items.As a primary camera itself, it works well on planetary objects, and produced excellent shots of the moon. 2MP allows decent blow-ups of planetary objects, but not deeper items. Exposures up to 30 minutes let you get decent stackable images of objects like Jupiter and Mars. While the non-Pro SV305 could overload with burst image transfers, occasionally losing an image or failing, this never happened with the Pro.While the standard SV305 was a good first CCD camera for those getting into astronomy, working well on smaller 'scopes, the SV305 Pro is more for the harder-core astronomer. While it can be used as a primary camera, like the SV305, the best use for the Pro is as a guide camera, and it worked well in this role for me. Considering the price, this is a bit of a bargain compared to the guide camera I was using from a "big name" astronomical supply company. Well worth the investment.
IB
2024-12-11 14:02:19
My wife bought me this camera to use as a guider on my Celestron 8" Edge HD with an AVX Computerized head. The camera after a month of tweaking and fiddling with software and drivers is still not providing adequate image quality to guide my scope. the old ZWO guider works smoother and interfaces with the software much more seamlessly. I would have retuned it had I been able to try it out sooner.
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