Starlight Xpress SXVR-M26C - Manual

Handbook for the SXVR-M26C Issue 1 March 2010
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The SXVR-M26C one-shot colour CCD camera
Thank you for purchasing a Starlight Xpress CCD camera. We hope that you will be
very satisfied with the results.
The SXVR-M26C is an advanced, high-resolution one-shot colour cooled CCD
camera, especially designed for astronomical imaging. It incorporates a built-in, fully
programmable, USB 2 super-fast computer interface, an autoguider control port and
output and optional integrated dual serial ports for filter wheel and telescope control.
It also includes a CCD temperature monitoring circuit which provides regulated set-
point cooling of the chip and a substantial reduction in overall size.
The SXVR-M26C uses a Sony ICX493AK ‘Super HAD’ interlaced scan CCD, with
3900 x 2616 x 6.05uM pixels in a 23.5 x 15mm active area. Super HAD devices have
excellent quantum efficiency, with a broad spectral response peaking at around 60%
in the green, and an extremely low dark current, well below that of any comparable
CCD currently available. The ICX493AK has a ‘Bayer Matrix’ of Red, Green and
Blue filters integrated onto the CCD surface and the colour data that is encoded into