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

I own a Celestron Starsense 130 and I been playing for some time, very nice telescope and easy to use but it gets anowing that everyone in the family have different Eyewear and we need to adjust the scope to every person eyes. I purchased the SVBONY camera and in 15 minutes I was streaming the scope view on my laptop to everyone enjoyment on the house. Thing to know: You need a dedicated program for connecting the camera to the laptop, i used the one from SVBONY ( very basic) but there are many outthere. The picture on the laptop is very good quality but you need to adjust the frames and exposure depend what you want to see. I find that using a lunar or light-pollution lents screwed on the camera help to have a clear and sharper picture. The programs on the computer saves the videos on .SAR files ( very new to me) and you need a .SAR files reader program on the computer to see the videos back. I'm very happy with this camera for this low price.

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.

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!

Its a decent beginner camera. It's not amazing but it does a nice job. I'm still a beginner at this. I am taking these photos in a suburban area so there's still lots of light pollution.

I am not attempting astrophotography with this device. I wanted an inexpensive way to connect my Celestron NexStar 8SE to my phone screen so that my grandkids can look through the scope. They find the eyepiece too hard. I have the NexStar 10MP camera for astrophotography , but there are no Android phone drivers/apps for UVC cameras so it only will connect to a Windows laptop - which is fine but not what I wanted for casual viewing with the kiddos. I found it very difficult to get any clear advice on alternatives (...and got told I didn't want to do this anyway. Which was weird!). I took a small chance on this $60 camera and is does exactly what I wanted. I connected it directly to the phone with an OTG connector using a simple 'Endoscope App' from the PlayStore and it worked first time with no problems. Focus is via the telescope and it renders very well given that it is only 2MP. I use OTG connections on my phone for other devices so I had the permissions set - ymmv. I don't know how quickly it would drain the phone without external power. SVBONY imply that there is a significant power draw with this device (who knows) as they provide a tandem cable to connect to an external USB power source at the same time. I couldn't get that to work. Instead I connected my phone to an external power pack (so it would charge) at the same time, using this tandem OTG connector https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B096DBNNPH (~$11.00). This works fine for me, and I already had both items. All in all this works very well within its limitations. It is easy to use with minimal setup and is excellent value for money

I bought two of these. The cameras work fine but the USB cord that shipped with one of them was defective. Unfortunately, is not a typical USB cord. Given the quality of the camera I would have expected better quality control on the cables that came with it. EDIT: I contacted customer service asking them to send a replacement cable. Instead of just sending me a replacement they want proof and want a video of the cable not working. Send me a replacement for the defective or don't but DO NOT WASTE MY TIME. I have bought two cameras, a filter, a Barlow lens, a dovetail scope base, and a zooming eyepiece from SVBONY - six products. I am now done with them because of their poor customer service. I removed a star from my original review.

This camera is well built, does the job, as well as unlocking a whole new aspect of astronomy for me. I’ve really only gotten to use the camera a handful of times and have only gotten to view the moon through it because of the position of the planets this time of year. After tweaking around with it after it arrived I got to break this bad boy in and take some pictures of the moon. The view was incredible and I am so pleased with the product! I have been buying SVBONY eyepieces and accessories with no downsides or hassles and now this just seals the deal. Very impressed overall and will be buying from SVBONY in the future. Edit: Mac OS has issues with UVC cameras such as the 105 and requires a code to be entered into the Mac terminal before the camera can be used. I struggled at first with figuring out why the camera would not connect (I got worried the camera was faulty) I finally got an error message from the computer itself. I will leave the code below in the hopes that it may help another Mac user struggling with the same problem as I have noticed the error message does not show sometimes. {sudo killall -9 UVCAssistant} Enter the code above (excluding the brackets) into your mac terminal and then your computer should have no problems connecting to the camera. Hope it helps!!

I purchased this little camera on sale for about $40. This was meant to be an experiment to see if I could use it for guiding to control my Orion Atlas EQ-G mount. I paired this camera with the SVBony SV165 guide scope for about the same price. Let me be clear... this camera is not designed for guiding. It's a low-end planetary camera and is basically a webcam. The image quality out of this camera is pretty poor. It has a maximum shutter speed of 1 second. It does not have its own driver and gets detected as a generic camera. I had pretty low expectations. All that being said, it's small and lightweight and runs off a single USB cable. PHD2 picked it up right away, and was able to automatically stack multiple 1s exposures to get longer exposures. I successfully used this camera with the SV165 to guide for 4 hours in a bortle 4 zone and got within .5 the entire night (sometimes even as low as .2!!). I have yet to try it at home where there's more light pollution, but I expect it to work, just maybe not as well. The attached image of Andromeda (79x60s) was taken while this camera was guiding and you can see how round the stars are. For under $85, I have a great little guiding setup for my budget rig. If you're looking to add guiding to your setup on the cheap, give this a try. It might work well for you, especially if you live under darker skies. Update: It’s been a few weeks now. I’ve been using this at home under bortle 7 skies with great success. Guiding accuracy averages at around .75. If I look at my images now compared to the exact same target a few weeks ago, it’s a night and day difference. Zero regrets here.

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.