SVBONY SV105 Telescope Camera, 1.25" USB2.0 IMX307 CMOS Color Astrophotography Camera, Electronic Telescope Eyepiece for Telescope, Suitable for Astrophotography Beginners

I bought this camera because I had been using my DSLR for planetary and deep sky shots. The deep sky are nice, but the planetary exposures never got the detail I needed. And the DSLR I have doesn't allow you to adjust much of the video settings, so planets were often overexposed. One of the issues is the size of the sensor compared to the image falling on it. My camera is 12M pixels, which sounds like a lot compare to this 2M unit, but the sensor is so much bigger, it means the sensor pixels are larger. When you do prime focus photography (camera hooked up to your scope directly), even with a 2X barlow, the image is so small, coupled with the larger sensor pixels, it is difficult to get good resolution of planet details. Even using a projection setup (projecting from a telescope lens onto the cameras sensor - I used a 15mm lens) I still could not get good resolution. After looking at a bunch of information on astrophotography, I decided I wanted to try a dedicated camera. Which to choose? There is a ton of information out there and a lot depended on how much you were willing to pay. I decided to get the most reputable cheap unit I could find. Enter SVBONY 105. I got it on sale so it was even less than the normal $50. I thought I would see if I even enjoyed this before sinking significant money into it. The unit is aluminum and has a solid feel to it. The 1.25" barrel fit tightly into the telescope (almost a little too tight, it was sometimes awkward to switch between lens and camera but just a little sanding of the outer barrel and it will fit nicely). My original scope was an older Celestron 4". The first night I tried to use this was unbelievably frustrating as my scope didn't track well enough to be able to play with the settings in SharpCap to get a good picture. The advantage of a small sensor is its great resolution. The downside is that it is a very small spot to hit, and if you don't have a good tracking scope, you are constantly chasing the object. After a couple of attempts, I put this away and went back to the DSLR. Time passed and I got a newer Celestron 6SE. When aligned well, this scope stays LOCKED on your target. What a joy compared to the other scope. So, again, I started playing around with the DSLR and again, was disappointed with the results. I held off using this camera because I have to set up in my alley and it is just harder to drag out a computer and table and run power. Last night, however, I decided to do it. With the scope aligned I locked on to Jupiter and Saturn. After centering the planets in the eyepiece, I swapped in the camera and BAM, there were these beauties in all their glory. Detail was easy to make out, and with the scope locked on to them, I had the chance to take really good shots of the two. Jupiter was a little low so the seeing wasn't that good, but Saturn was high and beautiful. The attached picture is Saturn made with a 2X barlow and from a run of 1000 frames at 640x480 with SER output. I prepped the video in PIPP, stacked in AutoStakkert (using best 50%), sharpened them in RegiStax, and made some adjustments in GIMP (all software is free, thanks guys for allowing average Joes to get into astrophotography on the cheap). I was super happy with the results. I have never taken as good a picture of Saturn before. I plan to use this camera for a bit because I think it is going to help me decide what my next camera will be. I think I like the SVBONY 305, but we will see. Until then, I am going to enjoy how much better this $50 camera is capturing the heavens than my $600 DSLR. If you are new to astrophotography, want to get an introduction to a dedicated astro camera, are not bothered by setting up some extra equipment, and have a good tracking scope or someone to help, then this is such a small price to pay. Just know, if you enjoy it as much as me, you will probably quickly outgrow it and look for more capability (higher resolution, less noise, actively cooled sensor, etc). Hope this helps those of you on the fence.

Very good quality for the price of the camera. My telescope is a Celestron Astromaster 130eq with the motor drive.

I was able to get this camera to work once at my desk. Then I waited for a clear night and ... nothing. I've tried every configuration possible to get this to work again but no program will recognize the camera. Windows Device Manager does not recognize it. USB Camera does not recognize it. SharpCap does not recognize it. Yet, all three recognize other USB web cameras. All that happens is that this camera gets very hot (so hot it is uncomfortable to touch). I've tried other cords, too. Nada. I contacted Svbony by email and they responded fairly quickly. They suggested doing everything I've already tried. They replied that something is probably wrong with the camera and I should contact Amazon. Too late. It is past the return date. I said this camera has a one year warranty. They replied: We have feedback your problems to the After-sales representatives of the amazon platform, we believe they will contact you as soon as possible. ****UPDATED**** After a mistake and some profuse apologies from Svbony, they were extremely helpful and sent a replacement camera. The camera is pretty sweet. No, it won't get you shots of the horsehead nebula like the James Webb scope gets, but you should be able get some that your friends say, "ooh, aah." With this camera, you'll still need (maybe) an extension tube to get the right focus, a laptop or tablet and download the software. Then you'll need (probably) a program to stack the photos you take. Fun times!

I managed to get it to work but it was a lot of fine tuning and figuring it out. They advertise that you’re able to use it with mac which is just totally not true. It’s also advertised as a plug and play device when not specifying that you need something like sharpcap to run it. A beginner who has never done this before would not know that. The camera is not good for picking up stars but it is decent for taking photos of brighter objects. Definitely would not be good for taking photos of nebulae unless you have an electronic telescope that can follow stars and produce higher exposure time images. You also cannot adjust the exposure, or at least I have not figured that out yet. If I were able i’d rate it a 2 and a half stars instead of 3. 2 stars seems too low however.

Para iniciar en la astronomía está súper bien, he tomado fotos geniales de la luna, Júpiter y Saturno, adjunto fotos, la compré en una super oferta y valió la pena para darme una idea de la astrofotografia y aprender a apilar y procesar imagenes.

Muy buen producto por el precio para planetaria. Adjunto primeras fotos de Júpiter y Saturno con un Skywatcher MAK90.

Il PC ha subito riconosciuto la periferica ed ha caricato i driver (Windows 10). L'ho provata sia su un PC portatile che su un fisso senza avere nessun tipo di problema. Da il meglio di se usando il software SharpCap che consiglio vivamente a tutti e se poi vi piace potretye comprare la versione PRO (che a differenza della versione base è a pagamento) per sfruttare anche la funzione di Live stacking. Il segnale non'è troppo rumoroso , pensavo peggio , e l'istogramma del colore si riesce a bilanciare bene. Consiglio di usare qualche filtro adatto al tipo di osservazione ... che in questo caso sarà prettamente planetario e Luna. Onestamente non si comporta nemmeno troppo male di giorno ma è un prodotto che è bene usare solo per osservazioni astronomiche. Per iniziare è ottima, pensando anche che svariati anni fa le camere planetarie costavano molto di più ed erano peggiori di questa. Sono soddisfatto dell'acquisto.

Very good camera for a70mm telescope

leider kann ich mit der Kamera nicht anfangen da es nur eine Englische Gebrauchsanleitung gibt das finde ich nicht gut gibt es sowas auf Deutsch volle 5 punkte.