Player One planetary cameras
IN RECENT YEARS, the popularity of Solar System photography has grown by leaps and bounds. Maybe it’s due to people being stuck at home during the long COVID-19 pandemic, but fantastically detailed closeups of Jupiter, Mars and Saturn (not to mention the Sun and Moon) appear in our inboxes with much greater frequency than in past years. This surge in popularity is being met by new companies getting into the business.
One of those is Player One Astronomy, a Chinese manufacturer that recently announced a line of high-speed video cameras geared specifically toward those with an interest in taking pictures of the large bodies in our Solar System. We borrowed both a monochrome and a colour camera to see how they perform.
Elegant package
Player One Astronomy’s planetary and solar cameras are housed in distinctive hexagonal bodies, which makes it easy to quickly determine the orientation of the detector when you’re inserting it into your telescope’s focuser. The two sides perpendicular to the text on the rear of the camera housing denote the
