ZWO ASI485MC USB3.0 Color Astronomy Camera - ASI485MC - Refurbished
About This ZWO Refurbished Product
This item has been professionally refurbished by ZWO, and carries a ZWO 2 Year Warranty which covers repairs in that period. The warranty does not cover replacements. This professionally refurbished item is fully functional. It includes the hardware and accessories, or suitable equivalents, that would have been included with a new item. The item you receive may or may not have factory packaging. This item is in Like New cosmetic condition. Images shown are of new product. This item is eligible for our standard 30 day return policy.
ZWO ASI485MC USB3.0 Color Astronomy Camera - ASI485MC
The ASI485MC is one of the best OSC planetary cameras released by ZWO in 2021. Packed with Sony sensor IMX485, this camera has some very great highlights, including a large resolution of 3840*2160, compatible with USB 3.0 interface, large full-well depth of 13ke-, extremely high sensitivity and super low read out noise.
1/1.2” 8MP backlit sensor
ASI485MC shares the same pixel size of 2.9um with ASI462MC, but when it comes to resolution, ASI485MC is 4 times bigger than ASI462MC. The total number of pixels is 8.28 million. The sensor length and width are 11.13mm*6.26mm. The diagonal is 12.86mm.
Extremely high sensitivity
One benefit of the back-illuminated CMOS structure is the reduced readout noise and improved sensitivity. Sony particularly uses the STARVIS™ technology on the IMX485 sensor, bringing it excellent visibility at low illumination. You may get very high light efficiency when taking astrophotos, also realize high picture quality in the visible-light and near infrared light regions. This, combined with the large FOV provided by the big sensor format, makes ASI485MC not only ideal for solar, lunar and planetary imaging, also can be used as the live streaming camera, or all-sky camera to observe or monitor weather condition.
HCG Mode
ASI485MC has a built-in HCG mode which can effectively reduce the readout noise at high gain and keep the same wide dynamic range as you would expect at low gain. When the gain is 80, the HCG mode will automatically turn on. The read out noise fall off a cliff while the dynamic range still can reach close to 11 stops. The minimum read noise is 0.7 e.
USB 3.0 Port & ST4 Port
USB 3.0 Port: Like other ASI cameras, the ASI485MC is powered and controlled via USB 3.0. It provides 5Gb bandwidth to let the camera run at 39fps (10bit, high speed mode) or 27.2fps (12bit, normal mode) at full resolution(8.2Mega).