Spectral Instruments 1100S CCD Camera (231-84 chip)

[clive milne]

I'm scared to ask the price.

-60C operating temperature
0.0003e-/pixel/s dark current at -90C
2.1e- Read noise @100kHz !
>90% QE

320ke- Full well
87mm chip diagonal
16 megapixels


http://www.specinst.com/Brochures%20Rev%20B/1100S-camera-broch_RevB.pdf

[RickS]

If you have to ask you can't afford it :lol:

[multiweb]

Impressive specs. Big pixel size though. Rules out widefields. :P

[clive milne]

Yes, no doubt.

Incidentally, the chip is by e2v and is a deep depletion sensor. FLI offer cameras with small chips by this manufacturer that run around the $40k mark.
It is also available in a larger format (130mm diagonal).

Princeton Instruments also do a few cameras with low read out noise levels (>3e-)

[clive milne]

I suppose it would be ideal on something like a field corrected 24" RC.