TS ToupTek 485CA Color Camera with IMX485 Sensor - Diagonal 12.86 mm, Air Cooling

TS 485CA fast UHD Color Astro Camera

The camera with the powerful Sony IMX485 sensor allows astrophotography on a high level. This modern sensor can be used for many areas of astrophotography. The 2.9 µm pixels provide a very high resolution, which makes very good use of the imaging quality of many high quality telescopes.

Another advantage is the sensational light sensitivity. The QE of 85% by BACK ILLUMINATION technology and the very low amplifier glow ensure that the camera is not only very well suited for taking pictures of solar system objects, but also well suited for photographing small deep sky objects.

The "single-shot" color camera offers more convenience compared to monochrome cameras. Not everyone wants to go through the laborious L-RGB process for beautiful colored nebula images or planetary images. Color cameras offer you the possibility to get beautiful images without changing filters.

Back-illumination technology:

Sony´s back-illuminated CMOS imaging sensor improves sensitivity and noise reduction - key factors in improving image quality - by changing the basic pixel structure from front- to back-illuminated. The advantages of CMOS image sensors, such as low power consumption and high operating speed, have been retained.

The back illumination improves the light acquisition and increases the amount of light at the same time. This makes significantly shorter exposure times possible and leads to an improved quantum efficiency of 84%.

Sony has developed a unique photodiode structure and on-chip lens optimized for backside-exposed structures, this results in higher sensitivity and lower random noise without light by reducing noise, dark current and defective pixels compared to the conventional front-side-illuminated structure.

Optimal support before and after purchase through Teleskop-Service

Through many years of experience, we can offer you optimal advice and also a very good after-sales service. We can perform almost all services at our premises. For a professional service we have among other things also a clean cabinet, where we can carry out repairs, cleaning etc. under dust exclusion.

Connection to correctors with M48 thread and 55 mm working distance with filter change

Most coma correctors or field flatteners for refractors have 55 mm working distance and an M48x0.75 thread on the camera side. Here you will find an interesting suggestion for the connection. The camera has a back focus of 17.5 mm from the T2 female thread. The adapters are from the camera to the corrector:

1. TSFSLM48T2 - filter drawer with T2 connection on the camera side and M48 thread on the telescope side.
2. TSVF220 - 20 mm M48 extension.
Total 55.5 mm flange focal distance - the 0.5 mm compensates well for the glass travel of the filter - spot landing!!!

The manufacturer of the camera is ToupTek

As one of the largest manufacturers of professional cameras for digital photography, ToupTek brings the necessary knowledge for cameras that just work. Teleskop Service receives the cameras directly from the manufacturer, we are in direct contact with ToupTek to provide you with first class service.

Product video

Teleskop-Service has made an overview video for ToupTek´s cameras:

Quick Guide

For installation you only need a quick start guide, it can be found here.

Informative PDF files about the TS-Optics/ToupTek cameras

We have made two helpful PDFs about some cameras from TS-Optics.

The first one gives general information about many cameras, it is in German language and can be downloaded here.
The second PDF lists information about some camera sensors, you can download it here.

Driver and Software

TS provides drivers and software for this camera, you can download them from the following links:

Windows XP/Vista/7/8/10 (32 and 64 bit)

Software TSSKY, does not need drivers

DirectShow Drivers

ASCOM Drivers

Apple MacOS

Disk Image with MacOS Drivers and Software

Linux

Software for x64 systems

Software for x86 system