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Camera Alta F16 grade 2

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Product description

The Apogee Alta family has been a mainstream of high end imaging for many years, offering a wide range of full frame and interline CCDs. Cooling performance down to 45° C below ambient ensures optimal signal to noise for long exposure applications. A USB 2.0 interface offers the convenience of simple, robust connection to PC.

Apogee Alta cameras are available with a wide variety of sensors, including: Back-illuminated sensors with very high quantum efficiency, some with sensitivity in the deep UV; Interline transfer sensors with fast electronic shuttering and inherent anti-blooming; front-illuminated CCDs with high sensitivity in the near-IR without etaloning and a range of resolution options up to 16.8 Megapixel.

Features and Benefits:

  • High resolution sensors: Sensors up to 16.8 Megapixel, offering large field of view at high resolution
  • Programmable TE cooling to 50 °C below ambient: Ideal for astronomy images, enabling long exposure acquisitions with optimized signal to noise ratio
  • High Dynamic Range: Large pixel sensor variants offer extended intrascene quantification of weak and bright objects
  • 16-bit digitization: High photometric accuracy
  • In built shutter: Shutter during readout and take dark reference frames - 25mm, 43mm or 63mm.
  • USB 2.0: Direct ‘Plug and Play’ connectivity
  • Programmable I/O port: Synchronization with intricate experimental set-ups
  • Remote triggering: LVTTL input allows exposure to start within 25 microseconds of rising edge of trigger
  • Focusing mode: Faster readout option, ideal for focus optimization
  • Precision locking filter wheels (optional): Choose from a range of Apogee family filter wheels, up to 10 position
  • Andor OEM optimization: Compact and robust, Andor integration support, Andor quality enhancement, Andor post-sale support. Now also supported by 'Andor SDK3'

The Apogee Alta F16 features a 16.8 megapixel full frame sensor with micro-lenses and no anti-blooming. The lack of anti-blooming structures renders the F16 ideal for accurate photometric measurements over a wide dynamic range, and a large field of view.

The exceptional performance of the Apogee Alta F16 makes it the perfect solution for many demanding astronomy applications.

Special features:

  • Temperatur stability: +/- 0.1°C
  • Maximum Dynamic Range: 82.1 dB (12702:1)
  • Linearity: >99%
  • Camera Window: UV-grade fused silica
  • Image Sequencing: 1 to 65535 image sequences under software control
  • Shutter: 63mm
  • Blemish Specification: Grade 2 as standard, as per sensor manufacturer definition

Specifications

Capacity


Antiblooming
no
Active cooling
yes
Colour camera
no
Interfaces
USB 2.0
Sensor type
CCD-chip (Kodak KAF-16801)
Size of chip (mm)
36,8 x 36,8
Pixel size
9
Resolution Photograph (Pixel)
4096 x 4096
Full Well Capacity
94.000
Bit depth (Bit)
16
Max. cooling difference below room temperature
-45
Reading noise
7,4
Dark current
0,007
Binning
1 x 1 to 8x 4096
Microlenses
yes
Megapixel
16,8
Flange focal distance (mm)
25,6
Max. exposure time (min)
95
Chip - Diagonal (mm)
52

General


Overall size LxWxH (cm)
17,8 x 17,8 x 6,5
Weight (g)
1900
Series
Alta

Area of application


AllSky, Meteore
no
Autoguider
no
Moon & Planets
yes
Nebulae & galaxies
yes

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Apogee Camera Alta F16 grade 2
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