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MGEN-3 has landed!
The MGEN-II is history!
After 10 years, the device that has revolutionized the way ambitious amateurs and professionals guide their astro imaging will be retired. The hardware was at its limits, the market and the needs of astrophotographers have evolved and we, as the leading innovator in guiding, were taking this into account:
Watch on Youtube: MGEN-3 One Button Quick Start Guiding
The MGEN-3 is here!
The new, much stronger hardware enables the new self-learning AI multistar guiding,
the large color display makes operation more pleasant
and with the new quick start function ("push one button") guiding starts with just a single push of a button
Nevertheless, of course, if you want, you have full manual control of all parameters ... but who wants that when the AI continuously parameterizes itself in the background?
Stand Alone or PC App controlled // stand alone or controlled via PC App
Selflearning (AI) adaptive guiding or manual modes // Self-learning adaptive guiding (AI) or manual setting
Easy to use: one button push guiding or manual control // Ease of use: just one button and guidet, or manual control
Enhanced high sensitivity with real time darkframe correction // Improved sensitivity with real-time dark image deduction
Multistar guiding for extra high subpixel precision // Multistar guiding for improved subpixel accuracy
Polar alignment using digital Scheiner method // Polar alignment using digital Scheiner method
DSLR / CCD Exposure Control // DSLR / CCD exposure control
Dithering modes available // various dithering modes available
Guidelog displayed and saved // Guidelog display and saving
The trick here is that the mgen.app is selected as the Ascom recording camera in the control software, and only then is the real recording camera selected in the mgen.app itself.This means that the mgen.app stands between the control software and the recording camera and regulates guiding and dithering which is no longer set in the control software.All other control commands, such as exposure, filter change, autofocus, live image, etc., are carried out normally via the control software.The surface of the Mgen-3 is also visible on the PC screen and can also be operated virtually.
Technical specifications
Camera
Chip: CMOS AR0130CS mono
Diagonal 6mm
Resolution: 1.2Mpx
Cooling: passive via housing
Power supply: via USB
Data: via USB2
Telescope-side connections: T2, M28.5x0.6 filter thread, 31.7mm socket / other adapters optionally available
automatic dark image deduction to increase sensitivity
Handbox
large color display (night modes available)
2x USB
micro SD card slot
Power supply 5V (USB), type 240mA
Snap socket for camera trigger control
additional serial output (3.5mm)
WiFi module integrated
Scope of delivery
MGEN-3 hand box
MGEN-3 camera
2x USB cable (for power supply and camera connection)
Autoguider cable (ST4 standard protocol) (Please note, some iOptron mounts do not use a Meade LX200 standard ST4 protocol and might even damage the MGEN-3, so if you use an iOptron mount, please ask the manufacturer if the guide port is a standard ST4 protocol without extra voltage in it...)