TS ToupTek 533CA Color Camera with IMX533 Sensor - diagonal 16 mm - C-mount connection

TS 533CA Fast Color Astro Camera of the latest generation without amplifier glow

The camera with the powerful Sony IMX533 sensor allows astrophotography at a very high level. This modern sensor can be used for many areas of astrophotography. The 3.76 µm pixels make this camera a high-resolution all-rounder with maximum sensitivity for short exposure times. Thanks to the high frame rate of 40 fps at 8-bit resolution, the camera is also suitable for EAA (electronically assisted astronomy) with the moon, sun and planets.

Sun and Moon are completely shown up to approx. 1100 mm focal length. However, bear in mind that this leaves little room for tracking inaccuracies, which can cause the object to drift partially out of the field of view.

Another advantage is the high light sensitivity. The QE of 80 % thanks to the BACK ILLUMINATION technology and the lack of amplifier glow ensure that the camera is not only very well suited for taking pictures of objects in the solar system, but also for photographing small deep-sky objects.

The "single-shot" color camera offers more convenience compared to monochrome cameras. Not everyone wants to use the laborious L-RGB process for beautiful colored nebula images or planetary images. The color cameras offer you the possibility to get beautiful images without changing filters. But in direct comparison to the DSLR camera, the color camera convinces with a disproportionately higher light sensitivity, a smoother image and much more depth. Stars do not burn out as quickly.

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 80%.

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.

No amp glow:

Conventional CMOS sensors produce a faint infrared light source during operation, which can often be seen in the corners of uncalibrated images as a telltale sign of "amp glow". Since the TS533CA uses zero amp glow circuitry, you don´t have to worry about amplifier glow even when using high-gain, long-exposure images.

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.

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 videos

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

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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.

Drivers and Software

ToupTek provides drivers and software for this camera, you can download them from here.

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