Re: [APML]: CCD pic

[Andy Wallace <andywallace@home.com>]

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Jerry--why couldn't one of our group rig a piezo-electric cooler to such
a chip? Andy

Jerry Lodriguss wrote:
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> This photo was taken with a Nikon NC2000E digital camera and its Kodak M3
> chip.  It is a one-chip color camera with a 1268 x 1012 pixel array, with
> each pixel being 16 microns.  That's 1,283,216 pixels.
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> A real drawback in using this camera for astrophotography is the fact that
> the CCD chip is not cooled. I hooked it up to the AP 130EDT and took some
> images of things like the moon, Epsilon Lyra, and the Ring Nebulae, and at
> long exposures, like 30 seconds, the thermal noise made the image unusable.
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> The Epsilon Lyra image and the moon images were just too boring to post. <G>
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> Jerry
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