Schulman Telescope CCD Camera and Detailed Imaging Specifications
CCD Camera: SBIG STX (KAF-16803) 4096x4096 9µ pixels
Plate Scale: 0.33”/pixel
Field of View: 22’ x 22’
Filters: 65mm square Broadband (AstroDon GenII) Red, Green, Blue also Clear (IR blocked) and 4.5nm H-alpha filters.
Faint limit of main detector for a 300 second exposure: 21st-22nd magnitude (Clear)
Chip has anti-blooming gate. Linear to 35,000 ADU
On board (dual chip SBIG design) guide chip. Filters cover guide chip.
Guide star faint limits: Clear: 13th magnitude, RGB: approximately 12th magnitude, H-alpha: 10th magnitude
60% Quantum Efficiency at 550nm
Instrument rotator (0.1 degree precision)
40-inch Electroluminescent Flat field panel
Unbinned (and uncalibrated) image size: 32Mb
CCD readout time 6 seconds (unbinned)
Autofocus time, 2 minutes
Filter select time 6 seconds
Instrument rotator full revolution 2 minutes
Sample Images of NGC1977
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