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Old 26-08-2010, 06:57 PM
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Originally Posted by DavidTrap View Post
Impressive technology, but wouldn't this just be massive oversampling for astro-work?
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The pixels are 2.2 um. With a proper 3m FL the image scale is 0.15 arc/secs, youd be hard pressed to tell the diff compared to a 16800 16meg (9um) chip, which is much bigger and 0.62 arc/secs.
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