The Santa Barbara Instrument Group (SBIG) is adding two new models to its line of specialized, high-resolution CCD cameras for astrophotography and spectography. The ST-8300M and ST-8300C both feature ...

Driver assistance systems are one of the highest-growth segments in vehicle electronics. The market analysts of Mercer Management Consulting put the annual growth in turnover at around fourteen per ...

Although one can begin to explore amateur astrophotography with a smartphone camera or a webcam, today's tool of choice for this pastime is a special-purpose, cooled CCD camera. The case in point is ...

This document describes how to use the DLP LightCrafter with the global trigger function of industrial USB, FireWire, and GigE CCD cameras from The Imaging Source ...

If you spend a lot of time reading about cameras, you’re probably familiar with the terms CMOS sensor and CCD sensor, as they describe the two most popular digital camera sensor types. You probably ...

The Celestron Nightscape CCD Camera is a oneshot color imaging device featuring a 10.7-megapixel CCD sensor. The camera incorporates thermoelectric cooling and an adjustable fan for temperature ...

There’s a new kid in town, and his name is COLDMOS. At the 2017 Advanced Imaging Conference in San Jose, California, I couldn’t help noticing some shiny new cameras without filter wheels. I went in ...

Charged Coupled Devices (CCDs) manipulate the movement of electrical charges by changing the signals through the various stages within the device, later converting captured light into digital data. An ...

The most common choices for detectors for visible Raman spectrometers are CCD (charge-coupled device) and EM-CCD (electron multiplied charge-coupled device) cameras. While there is more to a Raman ...

A giant CCD sensor, in fact the largest ever deployed on a telescope, has captured its first images. The sensor, which is mounted on the Canada-France-Hawaii Telescope (CFHT) in Mauna Kea, Hawaii, ...

Technology co-invented by 2009 Nobel laureate George E. Smith, SM'56, PhD'59, has profoundly changed consumer electronics and transformed the way astronomers at his alma mater observe the heavens.