New Sensor

[Peter Ward]

I recall when the very first CCD sensors were being produced that any
talk of digital imaging replacing photographic film at your local photo club was generally met with pitchforks and flaming torches.

"They'll never be the same size as film" was a constant refrain.

Sony have recently released the IMX811. A 4" 245Mp sensor no less.
(19200 x 12800 pixels).

Link Here

As to whether we'll see one in an astocam package remains to be seen..
But by any measure a 4" sensor is seriously impressive imaging real estate.

[leon]

Wow that certainly is impressive Peter, imagine what one of you guys could do with that thing.

Leon

[Leo.G (Leo)]

I still need a faster get away vehicle, the old 33 year aged Falcon just won't cut it against these new BMW's.
I'm guessing it's going to be very expensive and top tier scientific use only but it would be intriguing to see the end results.
Digital will never replace film!


I never actually stated that but back in the 2Mp digital camera days I often stated it was not the quality of film, things change.
Same as black and white TV was never as good as colour.

[Peter Ward]

I've found there is always an "arms race" between what my PC can process
(in reasonable time frames) and the data my cameras throw at it.

My recent GPU based processing upgrade (for some AI based routines) has certainly helped...but a 240Mp camera would rapidly fill my hard drives and take around 16x longer per IMX455 sub to process....plus a telescope that has a perfectly flat 150mm wide field doesn't exist in amateur gear (as far as I know)

Very much a case of careful what you wish for

[Leo.G (Leo)]

Computers are always my bottleneck. While I like my son to have reasonably late gear where possible (not high spec) I'm content with a cheap HP compact desktop I got from Greys auctions for maybe $50. It's an I7 but nothing remotely current.
I struggle to process /stack images from my D810 with my gear, it locks up, esp[especially trying to stack large files. Anything remotely newer than 10 years old is going to throw a spanner in my works.
I'll wait till they fit the camera to the James Webb, lol.
Saying that as I mentioned cost alone is going to put it at the top of the scientific world so there could be some very nice data coming in eventually.

[Crater101 (Warren)]

Originally Posted by Peter Ward

I've found there is always an "arms race" between what my PC can process
(in reasonable time frames) and the data my cameras throw at it.

Very true, and the "bigger is better" concept where camera megapixel counts are concerned doesn't always hold water. It's certainly technically impressive, no argument, and I'll be interested to see how it performs.

[Zuts]

This may help, 192 cores/384 threads and only USD 14,000 for the CPU.

https://www.cpu-monkey.com/en/cpu-amd_epyc_9965

[Startrek (Martin)]

That’s a boat load of pixels in that sensor , very impressive to say the least
However no matter the size , engineering and quality, Mother Nature is always the winner