Using a virtual-phase, thermoelectrically cooled CCD, a relatively inexpensive but very sensitive slow-scan camera has been built. The primary purpose is for field acquisition and guiding with the ...

The world's largest astronomical camera has been installed on Palomar Observatory's 48-inch Oschin Telescope in California. This telescope has been working to improve our understanding of the ...

CCD imagers have advantages over visual observers. Even under light-polluted skies, a small telescope with virtually any digital-imaging device will reveal details not attainable visually.

A CCD -- a larger and more sensitive version of the imaging technology found in everyday digital cameras -- will enable the astronomers to determine the ages of these stars and unravel the secrets ...

JPCam is the second largest astronomical camera in the world, with more than 1200 million pixels distributed in a mosaic of 14 Teledyne e2v scientific CCD (CCD290-99) image sensors that work in ...

These new low-noise cameras are mounted on the viewfinder of a regular telescope rig (see pics below), and can take pictures with extremely long exposure times (up to 60 minutes) or movies with ...

Many cameras other than astronomical CCDs now use CCD chips. Video camcorders and digital cameras are good examples. Most camcorders have CCDs with arrays of a few hundred pixels on a side.

New high-res CCD cameras from SBIG offer sensitivity and flexibility for astrophotography and spectography.

Today, we have advanced CCD sensors that can take advantage of every single incoming photon. So why do we still build telescope mirrors?