New concept low-vacuum CCD sensor chamber that guarantees no-frost with -40°C DeltaT at only 2.5A of power consumption
Total Noise of 9e- rms using low-noise acquisition mode
Powerful 1GHz microprocessor for stand alone wire-free operation (no PC is needed)
PC like use with Operating System, Graphic Desktop, Web access, applications that can be created, installed and removed
Optional 5" 800x480 touchscreen full color display (removable)
Optional mini wireless keyboard/touchpad
Integrated WiFi connection and Gbit Ethernet to PC / Tablet / Smartphone
16 GB (expandible up to 64 GB) internal storage plus external USB pendrive or hard-disk
Open-Source Camera Processor Code available to the user to experiment ideas and specific SW application
2 HS USB, TX/RX serial port, I2C, SPI, +3.3V, +5V, +12V DC output power supplies
User configurable I/O lines to implement triggers, alarms, custom interfaces
Dark Current .. 0.03e-/pixel/sec at -20°C
Full Well ..... ~40000 e-
Total Pixels .. 16.2 Million
CCD Size ...... 27 x 21.6 mm
Pixel Array ... 4500 x 3600 pixels
CCD .......... On-Semi(Kodak) KAF-16200 (mono/color, class 2)
Antiblooming .. 2000X
Interfaces .... USB 2.0 Host HS x2, Gbit Eth, WiFi, UART, GPIO
Filter wheel... Integrated, 4 2" or 5 42mm unmounted filters
Camera Size ... 160 mm diameter x 90 mm
Mounting ...... M48
Weight ........ 1Kg (w/ integrated filter-wheel , w/o display)
Backfocus ..... 25 mm (including integrated filter-wheel)
Shutter ....... Mechanical
Sampling Mode . Digital multi-sample CDS
A/D Converter . 16 bit
Gain .......... 0.9 e-/ADU
Total Noise ... 9 e- rms typ
Binning Modes . up to 10x10
Readout Speed . 500 Kpxls/sec (about 30 sec)
Max Cooling ... -40 °C ±0.1°C regulated
Power ......... 12VDC @ 2.5 A max (operational at 100% Peltier)
Smartcamera Approach
Photo sequences programming with filters management
Temperature setting and monitor
Liveview with integrated focus mode
Autoguiding with dithering
Planetariums with mount control, including plate solving
Images review
Similar to a powerful astrophotography-oriented DSRL, the camera itself offers an integrated complete suite of easy to use graphical applications including:
Thanks to its "intelligence", the
camera can do onboard all the operations that other cameras can only do
by means of an external PC, because the camera is a PC itself.
The Astrel Instruments cameras are powered by a 1000MHz Processor with 1Gb of memory and up to 64Gb of onboard storage.
The camera can autonomously autoguide with many commercial USB autoguider cameras and use planetarium applications to control the mount operations (alignment, goto, ...) on most commercial mounts. Many other commercial devices like motorized focusers, external filter wheels, ... can also be directly connected and managed autonomously by the camera.