Exclusive: Astrodon Filter Scans from Perkin Elmer 900 Precision Spectrometer
Dark Noise compared at -25C and -45C
Relationship between cooling and maximum exposure time
Maximum Practical Exposure: Dark shot noise = Read noise or Dark Fixed Pattern Noise = Dark Shot Noise
How many exposures are too many?
Using Multiple Subexposures to attain the same S/N as a single exposure
Dark Column formation in KAF sensors
Camera Characterization via Dark Transfer Curve Method
W4 galactic chimney paper (PhD research)
Photon transfer analysis method (from WSP 2009 talk)
The mathematics of Flat-Fielding
How many flats are enough and at what signal level?
Flat Field Photon Transfer Curves and Pixel MTF for ML4022 Camera
Proline 16803 Characterization Report
Apogee U8300 and FLI ML8300 preliminary photon transfer report
Apogee U8300 dark signal and dark shot noise versus temperature
Color imaging using Polarizing filters
Signal to noise ratio of pixel referred to filter for emission line targets and narrowband filters
Use of empirical data to determine the signal to noise ratio of an image on a pixel by pixel basis
Smearing of long wavelength images due to charge diffusion
Variance of camera gain dependency on amplifier Vdd
Continuum Subtraction Initial Experiments
Residual Bulk Image root cause explained
RBI Paper from IS&T/SPIE Electronic Imaging 2009 (*NEW*)
Taming Residual Bulk Image in CCDs from NASA Tech Briefs April 2009 (NEW)
Summertime Blues: too hot to image faint targets?
Fixed Pattern Noise vs Shot Noise for same signal level
Resolution of certain flat-field anomalies involving AstroDon square emission line filters
Quantizing noise in a digital imaging system and how to design around it.
Raw stacked data for emission line processing practice
Why it makes no sense to use Halpha for luminance for tricolor emission line images
Comparison of Schuler and
Custom Scientific Halpha filters
Comparison of SGBNR noise
reduction program on a color
image of the Helix Nebula
Quantum Efficiency comparison:
KAF versus KAI sensors
Comparison of Thor's Helmet Nebula imaged with AP155/ST10XME and C14/IMG1024S imaging systems
Comparison of Cone Nebula imaged with AP155/ST10XME and C14/IMG1024S imaging systems
Comparison of Custom Scientific 3nm Ha filter to AstroDon
6nm Ha filter
Comparison of Wavelet vs non-wavelet
First Light Tests of FLI Dream Machine (2006 purchase)
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