Peter,
Not sure if the KAI-08050 is a good candidate for Astro
Specs here
http://www.ccd.com/pdf/ccd_8050.pdf
Its only got 20,000e well depth and the spec sheet says 12e- Read Noise although the Camera maker is quoting 9e- Read Noise
Maybe they are using a lower transfer speed to get the lower noise ?
But 20ke and 12e only gives you 10.7 bits - so not a big dynamic range and even less than the KAF-8300.
The TrueSense Filter Pattern - an additional option to Bayer and Mono would make it more sensitive in Qe than a Bayer one shot - but at a cost of colour space.
Not sure if all the astro processing platforms handle this Bayer alternative pattern or not - would be worth checking.
The KAI-16050 is the same in the dynamic range department - only 20ke- well depth.
http://www.ccd.com/pdf/ccd_16050.pdf
Compare that to
The KAI-11000 series have 50ke- well depth
The KAF-16803 well depth is 100ke-
I think the intended market is industrial, traffic and scientific.
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Originally Posted by PRejto
EDIT: I just heard about the SBIG STF8050SC. It would give me 1.16 arc-sec resolution and FOV 48.1 x 64. I can't find out very much about this camera but seems to perform a lot like a KAF8300.
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