Re:Color Night Vision (2016) [video]
by jbrambleDC on Friday April 07, 2017 @10:12PM
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I want to know what this means for observational astronomy. Can we put this in the eyepiece of a telescope and discern features in nebulae that otherwise look like gray blobs to unaided vision
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Telescope cameras are already way past this. This camera has the advantage of being cheaper and smaller.
Re:Color Night Vision (2016) [video]
by tigershark on Friday April 07, 2017 @11:41PM
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Not at all.
Even when cooled well below zero and without any Bayer filter I never saw something like this with less than 1/10s of exposure.
I suppose it's a matter of resolution. ARCONS is an IR photon counter with 44x46=2024 pixels. I don't know how that would correspond with a camera's ISO, but you can't get much better than single photons. I'd imagine it's useless to install in your ground telescope, but perhaps in a couple decades, the resolution will be scaled up to compete with current optics imaging methods.
Re:Color Night Vision (2016) [video]
by tigershark on Saturday April 08, 2017 @02:08AM
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Photon counters were not what I had in mind when you were speaking about astronomy cameras.
I remember that around 20 years ago we had 1/100th of magnitude resolution with photon counters compared to 1/10th of the CCDs (SBIG &co.)