ELP Black White USB Camera for Computer Mini HD Monochrome Low Light PC Camera Module USB 0.01lux 960P Embedded Webcam Board for Laptop UVC USB2.0 Industrial Medical Raspberry Pi USB Camera Module

This sensor couldn’t have been more perfect for my use. The setup was plug and play. Didn’t even need to download drivers.I designed and printed a case and am using the sensor as a guide camera for astrophotography. It’s been great. It’s not filling the screen with stars to choose from, but there have been consistently 3-5 stars to choose for guiding. I have been able to get 10+ minute exposures with tiny, perfectly round stars at a 1200mm focal length. I’m very happy with it.Edit 5-13-20: while this sensor worked just fine, I eventually purchased an imx290 2mp color sensor and it is many times better than the ar0130. It can be found for just under $50. If you don't mind spending a few extra dollars, the imx290 is the way to go. Plus, it can double as a planetary imaging cam as well.

The image sensor on my unit is not truly monochrome. It is a color sensor with the saturation setting turned all of the way down. This may not matter for some but it is not ideal for my use case.

Bought this for use as a camera for my guide scope since I thought the b&w version would be more light sensitive. Plugged into my computer and the video feed seemed good, but I was able to enable color when messing around with the cameras settings. This is not a black and white sensor, I’m pretty sure the saturation is just set to 0 out of the box. Pretty misleading.

I was going to try using this as a finderscope/ polar scope set up for my telescope. The hope was that software, such as Sharpcap, would be able to take advantage of the the camera's capability to do longer exposures, but unfortunately with this board version, I found this NOT to be the case. Exposures are limited, I don't remember how much exactly now, but if Polaris was visible in say, a field where at least a dozen other stars should have been visible with the non-board equivalent camera (google that), this camera would only show two or three. This isn't enough for polar alignment purposes. It *may* be able to serve as autoguider though, but I didn't test that.