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It would have to be priced at less than the price of the 16803s 100Ke to be of interest for astro. 20ke is about a raw 14bit with fairly small 5.5um pixels. Sufficient for a DSLR, would be awesome for that.
Seems we are heading for a 2 class astro cam market, starting with the 8300 and now perhaps the KAI29050. Cheaper low performance huge MP sensors (although the new bayer layout looks like QE is improving) and traditional astro CDs, which havent changed that much in performance in the last few years. Its a good thing, a choice of super hi res for easier targets and carefull capture, or the usual hi-perforamce CCDs.
Seems large well depth/hi-Qe/large pixel chips have pretty much reached a brick wall, without going to unmanagable sizes for commercially available optics.
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