Ccd Chip; Model G0-0300 And G1-0300; Model G0-0300C And G1-0300C - Moravian Instruments G0 User Manual

CCD Chip

Sensitivity is an important feature of any CCD camera, no matter if it is
used as an imaging camera or automatic guider. Imaging camera must not
waste light gathered by the optical system to provide images with as good
signal/noise ratio as possible. Achieving of sufficient S/N ratio in rather
short time is also important to allow perfect guiding – the necessity to
accumulate light for many minutes is often unacceptable for high quality
guider. This is why the G1 cameras utilize sensitive Sony CCDs.
The CCD quantum efficiency exceeds 50%.
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The CCD read noise is very low and reaches 5 to 10 electrons
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RMS.
G1 cameras support 16-bit digitization, significantly enhancing the
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dynamic range compared to 8-bit cameras.
Strong anti-blooming protection keeps even bright stars round,
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without blooming streaks.
G1 cameras also provide very fas readout – pixel digitization speed
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is 8 Mpx/s in fast read mode.

Model G0-0300 and G1-0300

G0/G1-0300 model uses progressive-scan VGA (640
ICX424AL CCD chip.
Resolution
Pixel size
Imaging area
Color mask

Model G0-0300C and G1-0300C

G0/G1-0300C model uses progressive-scan VGA (640
ICX424AQ CCD chip with Red, Green and Blue color mask (Bayer mask)
applied directly on the CCD, which allows capturing of color images by
single exposure.
Resolution
×480
656 × 494 pixels
7.4 × 7.4 µm
4.9 × 3.7 mm
Not present
656 × 494 pixels
pixels) Sony
×480
pixels) Sony
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