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The AST16200-B cameras are based on 16-megapixels monochrome and color KAF-16200 CCD Sensors (class 2) and are equipped with integrated 4, 5 or 7 position Filter-Wheel.
The Astrel Instruments cameras are powered by a 1000MHz Processor with 1Gb of memory and up to 32Gb of on-board storage.
The camera can autonomously autoguide with many commercial USB autoguider cameras and use planetarium applications to control the mount operations (alignment, goto, etc) on most commercial mounts. Many other commercial devices like motorized focusers, external filter wheels, can also be directly connected and managed autonomously by the camera.
The wireless mode lets the user communicate with the camera through a WiFi connection established between his Tablet / Smartphone (or of course a PC) and the camera.
The AST16200-B features an integrated filter wheel with 7, 5 or 4 positions. The whole wheel can be easily swapped with another one if more than 4 or 5 filters are required. The following integrated wheels are available:
• 7 positions: 36 mm round unmounted filters
• 5 positions: custom 42 mm unmounted filters available at the moment only from Astronomik
• 4 positions: 2" or 50 mm round unmounted filters, 1 to 3 mm thickness
Astrel cameras with an integrated filter-wheel can be fit with filters directly during camera assembly. We can directly buy and mount the filters selected by the customer.
The sensor and the cooling chain are contained in a vacuum proof chamber: using the included vacuum pump connected to the valve on the rear of the camera body, in less than a minute the air can be pumped-out. This has 2 fundamental effects: it eliminates the possibility of frost forming inside the chamber and minimizes the convention up and down heat transfer inside the chamber, optimizing the heat removal via the cold finger and avoiding cooling of the optical window that could lead to fogging.
No desiccant is needed
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