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Old 25-10-2015, 09:32 AM
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I've seen many interesting patterns on various sensors over the years from cosmic ray and or particle hits.

Further they can and do damage pixels on the CCD over time. A typical artifact is a hot pixel wil a charge spill below it, looking like a column defect.

All very normal for a sensor optimised to detect electrons (usually in the search for photons)
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