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Re: Photon Transfer Curve

Subject: Re: Photon Transfer Curve
From: pkuschak@xxxxxxxxxxx
Date: 11 Dec 2006 07:45:09 -0800
Newsgroups: sci.astro.ccd-imaging
Hi Jens,

> >> Have you made a linearity curve of the sensor, for example by
> >> making different exposure times with the same illumination?
> >> The amount of readout noise could also be very high, but this
> >> should be seperateable from the photon shot noise in the graph?
> >
> > I have, and there is some residual nonlinearity at low exposure levels,
> > but nothing too great.
> > The readout noise doesn't seem to be too high.
>
> But this seems to be important, is the acquisition board designed
> for imagers, what method is used, CDS (correlated double sampling)?
> What is the exact sensor name?
> I think in the time i have all informations needed to get the
> reason, i can design and built a complete new camera ;-).
>
> Is the project an astro camera?

The acquisition board is a National Instruments LabView ADC.  So, It's
more of a general purpose low noise ADC.  It's a proprietary CMOS
sensor, so legally, I can't speak freely about the readout method.  I'm
sorry.

It is not an astro camera, but I do come from the astro community so
I'm familiar with some of the specifics of astronomical
instrumentation.

Best regards,
Patrick


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