|
I got a reply from Raptor Photonics as well. $79,216 for the Eagle V 4mp large format sensor camera and $14,400 for the Kingfisher including some software and some other accessories.
The Kingfisher with icx 694 (6mp) 7 electrons read noise and listed smaller well depth (I think its just an error) its not even matching Starlight Express, QSI, Atik, FLI or QHY for performance. Plus you use your regular software. They typically are less than 5 electrons read noise and 20K well depth for the ICX694.
The Eagle V though is a pretty impressive piece of gear that would be hard to match. Unless you pay $79K only to find the fixed pattern noise of the back illuminated sensor is hard to flat field out.
As an aside I see back illuminated CMOS sensors as commonplace (my Samsung Galaxy 6 Edge has one). I don't know why its still a big deal in CCDworld. Maybe because the CCD sensors tend to be a lot larger.
Perhaps an sCMOS sensor in an astro camera may happen in the near future?
Greg.
|