Italian Company Makes a Cooled Nikon D5500 for Astrophotography

Italian company PrimaLuceLab has produced a modified Nikon D5500 featuring a double Peltier cell cooling system which has been designed to minimize noise during long exposures.
 
According to Filippo Bradaschia, PrimaLuceLab’s CEO, the “Nikon D5500a Cooled” includes the following features:
 

• Cooling system that cools down the sensor’s temperature up to -27°C in respect of ambient temperature and stabilize the working temperature to the desired value
• Modified front filter that improve sensitivity especially in red part of the spectrum (similar to the one of Nikon D810a)
• Anti dewing system that allows it to avoid dewing problems when the cooling system starts
• Integrated shutter control to perform sequence of long expositions without the need of an external controller
• Power without the Nikon battery (in long exposure astrophotography usually DSLR camera runs out of battery, also because of cold conditions)

To learn more about this interesting camera, check out PrimaLuceLab’s website.