Starlight Xpress Oculus All Sky Camera with 150deg. Fish Eye Lens
SKU: SXOCOLUS
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About Starlight Xpress Oculus
The Starlight Xpress Oculus is a 150 degree coverage all-sky camera module, based on a 'SuperStar' camera core. It offers a high quality, low noise image, for sky conditions monitoring and meteor watches etc. The Oculus is provided with a replaceable, scratch-resistant, polycarbonate viewing dome and a satin anodized aluminum body. The camera is USB powered, but an additional 12v anti-dew heater input is also provided.
The Starlight Xpress Oculus uses a SuperHAD CCD from Sony which has all of the wonderful benefits of an interline Sony CCD, such as incredibly low thermal noise and very fast electronic shutter (no need for mechanical shutters). With exceedingly low noise electronics and a fast f/1.2 150 degree fisheye lens, capturing the night sky is an absolute dream.
The Starlight Xpress Oculus is USB powered and driven but does require a 12dc input to drive the built in anti-dew heaters. The software supplied allows you to capture a series of exposures and add them together to create a dramatic avi movie of the night sky. This is the perfect camera for imaging meteor showers, viewing the weather conditions at a remote observatory and imaging the night sky in a spectacular way.
Starlight Xpress Oculus Features
- Permanently mounting electronic equipment outside in all weather is always a concern. With the Oculus, great care has been taken during the design process to incredibly reduce weather affects on the camera
- The dome of the Oculus is a quality, highly polished polycarbonate 3" dome with the lens positioned at the optimum point in the dome to ensure there is no distortion in the star field
- The Oculus comes with a right angled aluminum tripod bracket to secure it to the side of your dome or building. This has the standard 1/4" tripod thread on the base but can also be easily drilled and adapted for other mounting options