Planets and Stars ... but in 4K!

QHY keeps sending me cool stuff so let's play! Introducing the new QHY-5iii-715C high res guiding and planetary camera. Not a bad price in today's economy either.
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[@deanlouviere5995]

You have now reached the peak for astrophotographers. Not having to go near your telescope to image things.😂

[@DylanODonnell]

That's the dream haha

[@aw7425]

Thank you Dr Dylan, clear skies, feel better

[@DylanODonnell]

Thanks man ... 4 days of testing positive so far!

[@Theniccolo20slime]

Thanks for the daily dose of pure chaos in the first 2 minutes and then pure science and learning

[@DylanODonnell]

Thanks :) total clickbait. Come for the memes then boom … I shove my education right in when you least expect it. Guerrilla science.

[@Steve_The_Ignorant_Astronomer]

Really enjoy all your videos , keep them coming and feel better

[@stulivelife]

Great view as always. Really enjoy your content!

[@DylanODonnell]

Thanks Stu!

[@Westlake]

Cool video Dylan! Wishing you a speedy recovery! 🇨🇦

[@artinconstruction9070]

Hey Dylan, I watch all your videos, I must say, this was one of the coolest, Great job, thanks man !

[@DylanODonnell]

Ahh cheers! Appreciate the ongoing viewership!

[@billmurphypenguins3774]

Nice camera, nice tunes.

[@dumpydalekobservatory]

Nice to see a review on equipment that isn't red for a change, looks a neat little camera so look forward to seeing used some more. Clear skies!!

[@DylanODonnell]

Yeh I don't really do reviews as such .. no head to head comparisons or insights, or paid editorial. If it's something I'll play with I'll play with it :)

[@larryhibbitts2099]

Honestly - that's impressive. Great video Dylan- hope your son is doing well!

[@DylanODonnell]

Thanks Larry!

[@thinkwithbookmap]

Great video

[@fazergazer]

Awesome❤

[@jasonadrian6201]

DUUUUUUUUUUDE! Digital finderscope...my brain just spilled out at little

[@DylanODonnell]

Yewwww

[@thenoisyelectron]

the chip tunes made me think it was 2005 and I was installing cracked software. But seriously the detail in that live stacking is wild!

[@christosdalamagas5017]

Accidentally opened the subtitles: "g'day Dylan O'Donald here from the Brian bay Observatory". I'm laughing my soul out man!!!

[@DylanODonnell]

BRI-AHN BAY MATE lol that's great.

[@deep_space_dave]

Hi Dylan, I now have this camera and I love it so far! I had to update the firmware to Beta Ver. 20230509 to fix the pixel size. I put this on my RASA 8 and was able to capture the dumbbell nebula up close with good detail! Not bad for a planetary camera!

[@Kroller9]

Hey, thanks to your video i bought this camera. Unfortunately i am from Austria so bintel is not an option. I really like your videos!

[@gregwing6409]

Hey Dylan….not only did I learn from you that I don’t want and observatory, I also learned from you that I should remain a visual observer! However, I do occasionally try to take pretty pictures of the Moon with my SkyWatcher 120mm Ed Pro and my C11 on my Losmandy G11 mount using and older Canon EOS Rebel XS digital camera. I figure in about 5 years I will either get an easy dedicated cheap camera for this or if I am dead I will save some funds to past on to my children. BTW your editing in this video was excellent. Keep up the great work and get better soon. Cheers -Greg

[@DylanODonnell]

Hah! Thanks for noticing Greg... the edit on this video was more complicated than normal. Still testing positive today .. hopefully I can leave the house tomorrow!

[@Avanteesh_Astro206]

Great Review!! For the price though the camera Is Really Good, Especially For EAA imaging!

[@DylanODonnell]

Thanks, it really is. Would've like some more clear nights and planets but this first light was fun.

[@doubleehokie]

I cant not impersonate Brad Pitt when I hear "what's in the box?".

[@setnes]

You can do a neat guiding trick with a color camera with tiny pixels. Bin 2x2 and shut off the blue pixels. The shorter wavelength (blue) light is more affected by seeing than the longer wavelength light. You lose a little light... but your guiding might be better... in theory.

[@DylanODonnell]

Great trick! Blue is always complete trash.

[@astrobath]

Nice video, I got a QHY 585C not long ago, will try shooting planets this summer. We are all going violet. 😂

[@sjpp71]

This camera could go well in a small refractor, like the Evoguide 50 ED, or the Redcat 51. Sensor is a bit small, but for zoomed in live stacking, as you showed it, must be a fun to use. Or for solar, with a small coronado or a lunt!!

[@cstevens6692]

@sjpp71, I am running over the idea of getting this camera to tryout with my Redcat 51, Has anyone out there used this combination? Thanks in advance!!!

[@Wombatzone31]

G'day mate, love your videos! I have been using a 50mm Orion Guide Scope with an ASI120MM on top on my Bintel 200mm reflector..... You will still need the finder scope I have found out, helps to beable to do the both eyes open with one looking thru finder scope and the other looking at your target.

[@DylanODonnell]

Yeh but I don’t want to go outside .. at all. Platesolving will get me close enough. Digital finderscope will take me the rest of the way :)

[@Wombatzone31]

@@DylanODonnell Bahahahahaha! Check out the line up from Player One when you get a chance.

[@StargazerFS128]

That camera looks so cute! I want one to hang from the rear view mirror in my car, it's what I do with cameras 😂

[@user-gf4yd1km6q]

QHYs read noise graph deceptively only goes to 100 gain. So your plot actually matches their results.

[@DylanODonnell]

Ohh I see

[@nitezpeed3986]

LMAO 🤣.... I had the Same Idea using my Old ASI224MC on my SV165 as a Digital Finder/makeshift Widefield Imager/ Guider on My C5 Rig....LOL...Awesome Video....Sorry you got Covid...That sucks, but I'm glad your not having adverse symptoms....Look forward to the Next Video Dylan.....Clear Skies!

[@DylanODonnell]

Thanks for watching mate!

[@OhanSmit]

what a great little camera! I assume the weather is a little better down there? :D

[@DylanODonnell]

It has been better! Clouds and rain today but hopefully another break soon.

[@slzckboy]

Nice job with the new planet.Get your name to that sharpish :)

[@DylanODonnell]

All these years, and still no name!

[@tmrdarkstar85]

This video just might have sealed the decision to finally upgrade my guide camera from the old QHY 5III LM with the constant USB disconnect issue but then I need to upgrade my guide scope too. Originally I was thinking of just getting the 174m but maybe I will go for one of the newer planetary camera instead

[@DylanODonnell]

Same.. I've been waiting years to upgrade because the ASI120mm was so solid. No disconnects or dropped frames on this camera and I ran it for hours and hours.

[@tmrdarkstar85]

@@DylanODonnell I've been running my QHY 5IILM an the QHY mini guide scope for years now. But I need to get that disconnect thing solved before I offer my northern skies to you or Caleb remotely 😉

[@craiglowery4427]

Wonderful. I'd like to know how they compare to ZWO planetary cameras

[@brod5352]

I'd love to see how it works on your 11" Edge HD. I have the 8" version where I use the SCOPS OAG. Because I'm like you, I prefer to work from the comfort of my desk. And it really annoys me when I have to go out and unplug and plug in my camera or focuser. But the SCOPS OAG does have an auto focus and i love it. Saves me a lot of time. So as my focus changes over the night as the temp cools off, I can adjust my OAG quite easily to bring it into focus. So yes, I'd love to see this on an OAG using your 11" Edge HD. ;o)

[@DylanODonnell]

I would've in this video but I'm missing the right adapter to add another 10mm spacing to the OAG so it fits! Soon hopefully.

[@brod5352]

@@DylanODonnell Good, I look forward to watching it. OAG's take a lot of patience.

[@anthonyshort1509]

How were the sky's last night.. up here in SEQ we had a beautiful clear sky... considering I'm close to cities..it was the best night yet this year

[@DylanODonnell]

Jealous! All clouds and rain here.

[@deep_space_dave]

Okay Dylan, you need to put 715 camera on your RASA 11! I know the full well depth is puny but you would be amazed at how zoomed in you can get. I have a few posts on SM that show what can be done with small pixels on a RASA 8. Dude thanks so much for the video! QHY reached out to me I thought they were going to send me one but instead told me I had to wait like everyone else 😞 Guess I am not on the right side of the planet to get one yet 😕 Anyway's mate put that thing on your RASA and watch magic happen! Clear Skies!

[@DylanODonnell]

That sounds great !

[@deep_space_dave]

@@DylanODonnell Update, AgenaAstro just got a batch so I bought one! Hope to do a comparison on SMedia between this 715 and my frakencamera on my RASA 8 when I get a chance. Damn I need to start doing KZbin videos 😛 Oh and dude I hope you feel better, stupid c-o-v-i-d is still annoying 😞

[@TheAntibozo]

Be well, Dylan O'Donnell. 🐿

[@DylanODonnell]

Thx mate

[@garyschmelz6728]

Can you get a wider opening for you observatory? With your guide scope so far out, how do you manage moving the dome to match both your scope and your guide scope? My wife wants me to get an observatory, but I just can’t do it.

[@derekderek2570]

You should just build one, it would be cheaper and work better imo. There are a bunch of videos on how to make a roof removable structure

[@DylanODonnell]

Yeh ignore that janky setup .. a better way would be a closer adjustable guide mount. Then the observatory dome opening size and chasing precision is more forgiving.

[@Talalpro_1]

Nice one!!!!! I think the extenders and screw added some tilt this is why with the big boi momma 11 inch did not look that good

[@DylanODonnell]

I think you're right with distortion on an edge or side but the 3 reasons (colour cam, small pixels, poor seeing) still hold as main contributors to the overall quality of that particular shot.

[@Talalpro_1]

@@DylanODonnell yup I agree! How about you do some insane lucky imaging with the cam Even tho its oversampled try it with the 11

[@legolator]

Nice camera. What's that song called that you had playing towards the last part of the video. Shazam is coming up with everything from samba tunes to hardcore gangsta rap!

[@DylanODonnell]

Really nice isn't it? Actually just from a stock library .. reminds me of Jean Michel Jarre ... link : www dot storyblocks dot com/audio/stock/neutron-star-st5iozxg_klimg7bd.html

[@legolator]

@@DylanODonnell Yea he was the prime suspect no doubt. Thanks. :)

[@Oxizee]

I have an ZWO 30mm FL120mm at home with an ASI120MM-S. Will i get a bigger field of view with this IMX715?

[@MrGp3po]

Very tiny pixels. Betting that would work great with something like the RedCat51.

[@kunalsingh_yt]

@5:10 *Please show us some alien base on moon* 😉

[@joecooksey4331]

I prefer those HIGH dollar Tele Vue eyepieces!

[@deanlouviere5995]

That ain’t gunna work. Eyes just don’t work.

[@DylanODonnell]

*spits coffee over keyboard in rage*

[@joecooksey4331]

@@DylanODonnell LOL.... they also are dual purpose... they make great paper weights too!

[@keithhanssen7413]

Would this work better than an asi120mm (3.75um pixel) with my 240mm guidescope and refractors (70,80,102, and 130mm)? Do tell, please.

[@DylanODonnell]

You can use the calculator to compare them but once binned you get effectively 3um pixels on the qhy 715 and assuming it’s overall sensitively is better it should be a better camera. The ability to switch to colour just to look through your guidescope in colour is just a bonus :)

[@lwizzit]

Just a word of warning for fellow users of the SkyGuider Pro. You may not want to burn your ST4 cable. But, that’s up to you.

[@Bortle10]

So what you are saying is, that the only cam that goes well with my mak 180, is the asi432MM?

[@DylanODonnell]

Put it in the calculator :)

[@Bortle10]

@@DylanODonnell I did and of all the Zwo cams, only with the 432MM, the sampling was good

[@rmuhlack]

You might need to adjust your 500 rule given how Bintel is pricing this camera... :)

[@DylanODonnell]

Yeh I should tell them to jack the price up haha

[@user-rs2ys1wr8d]

ما أجمل هذه الهواية

[@DylanODonnell]

هو حقا! شكرا للمشاهدة.

[@PaulStewartNZ]

I hope you washed your hands after writing the code to simulate eyepieces 😂

[@DylanODonnell]

Worst few hours of my life

[@klaussfreire]

Geez. I know Carina is bright, but you can see nebulosity in live view? I'm jealous.

[@DylanODonnell]

Gain was up .. but 1s exposures! Was so great to see it "live" like that. Was fun just zooming around looking at stuff.

[@derekderek2570]

“Thanks vaccine” 😂 - What would this camera look like when it’s not on a cheap telescope that has a terrible FWHM, or a telescope that oversamples? Like a 600mm triplet or something

[@DylanODonnell]

I'd love to know too!

[@IvanVazquezS]

Hey there! looks like a really awesome camera but I have some big doubts about it with my setup... If I have a lens (not a telescope) 600mm with 95mm diameter, using the Bintel simulator it says my resolution would be 0.5" per pixel or even 0.25" per pixel if I use a Barlow 2x, but my dawes limit is only 1.22 arcsecs due my "narrow" lens. Do you think if I do lucky imaging for moon and planetary only I could get the most of this camera/lens setup? or would it be totally oversampled and deliver the same quality (or worse) than with a 462c? that one calculates 1" per pixel... Hope you can help me clarifying this!! and thanks!

[@DylanODonnell]

Oversampling is normal for planetary and some data beyond the Dawes limit is inferred from drizzling, and also remember there is colour separation per pixel so every colour pixel is at least two pixels away from the next one. I believe the high resolution of this cam negates the need to use a Barlow too.

[@IvanVazquezS]

@@DylanODonnell thanks a lot for your insight!

[@johnalexandermcbryde9788]

made you look :)

[@DylanODonnell]

👁️👁️

[@chattywalrus8485]

You got Covid all over that gear! Those surfaces are mostly steel, it's gonna stay there for a month! I think it's mutating in your hair right now! Oh, man, my throat ganglion is gonna swell up all over again! Now, I trust you wouldn't take my joke that way and rub lens cleaner all over that equipment, maybe use a scorching hair dryer on it, too!

[@lars-andersbrnn6927]

So this is how it ends? Cant say i felt that you put your self ''into it'' as you have earlier.... how many beers do you need to keep it up? or vacsines? I'm in non sense a written lingustic from norway, so pardon my colonial english, clear skies!

[@DylanODonnell]

Lol.. well you do have the greatest chess player of all time over there in Norway.

[@Top-Code]

every image can be 4k if you add enough black space around it - wise words of some super lazy person

[@DylanODonnell]

Iq 9000

[@JemCruz]

Horrible. You cut off the view of the messy kitchen at the last second. Boo!

[@GarnettLeary]

Moon really is a lame name. It’s so generic. If we renamed it Disney more people would encourage us to go back. It’s early. I wouldn’t pass a drug test before coffee and I’m clean. The hell was this video about? Clear skies.

[@DylanODonnell]

I’m drunk and I agree.