SVBONY SV305C Pro Telescope Camera, USB 3.0 High-Speed Transmission, 2MP IMX662 Sensor 128MB DDR Buffer, 1.25" CMOS Astrophotography Camera, Electronic Telescope Eyepiece for Astrophotography

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.

The perfection of clarity Vs other models. The price was unmatchable.This is a great addition to my telescopes.For my astrological needsworkd out. For. The best. On a xt8 and a meade etx60mm telescope

Was easy to set up with my laptop. Good picture, I used this to take pictures of the recent solar eclipse in 2024 (solar filter sold separately). What amazing pictures. Took some video also, looks great. I had to make some adjustments to the software I was using to make it work with this camera, but I don't think that is the cameras fault.

The sensor is excellent, very sensitive, improvements being made to drivers to fix some glitches changing between settings in Sharpcap but its a relatively new camera . The latest Sharpcap 4.1 released this week helped a lot. It will make a good guide camera.

Cumplió con lo esperado.

GREAT NO PROBLEMS. Very easy to use and its works well.

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.

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.

Excelente producto, calidad superior, bonito diseño y color, llegó super rápido, gracias!!!!!

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.

Very easy to use, plenty of programs to get the best out of the camera

Great, just as expected , works well

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.