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Old 18-02-2018, 03:12 PM
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Originally Posted by rally View Post

I'd consider asking the manufacturer about it and getting their opinion and maybe getting it serviced.

CCD electronics are actually tuned circuits to some degree.
Spot on.

The circuits traces will corrode over time and change their resistance values and the CCD can be affected by high energy cosmic rays (permanent hot pixels )

This is one of the reasons I run a dehumidifier in my observatory every night to help mittigate any corrosion.
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