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Originally Posted by Atmos
I personally don't see CCDs ever dieing, especially for the scientific community. At least not until a CMOS chip with 15 micron pixels, 250,000+ e- well depth and 95%+ QE is made.
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SCMOS is designed to meet the needs of the scientific community and there are some caneras in that market now but they are pretty expensive, like the Andor Zyla, Hamamatsu Orca, and others with QE at min 82% now with ultra low read noise. Interestingly the ASI1600 is on par with the best of the sCMOS cameras in low noise performance.
Not sure extreme well depth is that important for 'relative' short sub imaging, as has been pointed out in posts below this one, ultra low noise, and great QE yes for sure. Just shoot and stack more shallower subs, thus processing capability becomes more important, not to forget storage and raw speed, but these are cheap to acquire.