The Santa Barbara Instrument Group (SBIG) is adding two new models to its line of specialized, high-resolution CCD cameras for astrophotography and spectography. The ST-8300M and ST-8300C both feature ...

For most of the past 150 years, amateur astrophotography has been for only those who had unlimited patience and deep pockets. Then, in 1969, two scientists, Willard Boyle and George E. Smith working ...

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Although one can begin to explore amateur astrophotography with a smartphone camera or a webcam, today's tool of choice for this pastime is a special-purpose, cooled CCD camera. The case in point is ...

The internet is full of people trying to find the “holy grail” of a digital camera that gives you “film like” images – but were film photos really that good? Short answer: no, not in all the ways that ...

If you spend a lot of time reading about cameras, you’re probably familiar with the terms CMOS sensor and CCD sensor, as they describe the two most popular digital camera sensor types. You probably ...

Make no mistake: A CCD camera, even the smallest one, can run circles around a DSLR when it comes to faint detail. For this reason, and because a CCD camera has the ability to take data through ...

Driver assistance systems are one of the highest-growth segments in vehicle electronics. The market analysts of Mercer Management Consulting put the annual growth in turnover at around fourteen per ...

A giant CCD sensor, in fact the largest ever deployed on a telescope, has captured its first images. The sensor, which is mounted on the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT) in Mauna Kea, Hawaii, ...

This user manual is intended to explain how the images have to be acquired and processed with the PRISM's CCD testing package. The parameters determining the CCD performances (such as linearity, dark ...