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Camera Sensitivity Comparison - DVTI+CAM 174, DVTI+CAM 430, WAT-902H2 Ultimate

JOA 2023, Vol. 13, No. 3, Page 5

Author(s): Andreas Schweizer, Stefan Meister

Abstract: For a long time, CCD cameras were used for the observation of stellar occultations. A common setup was and still is an analogue camera with external video time inserter (VTI box) and frame grabber. In recent years, observers started switching to cameras with CMOS sensors. In this article, we compare the sensitivity of the recent third-generation Sony Pregius CMOS sensors to the first-generation and to a Sony ICX429ALL CCD sensor in an analogue camera.