CAMERA & DETECTORS
Astronomy Camera
iKon-XL 231
Andor’s NEW iKon-XL is a TE-cooled, very large area CCD camera platform, accommodating big field of view sensors that are ideally suited to long exposure astronomy applications. Patent-pending ColdSpace™ technology thermoelectrically cools a back-illuminated 16.8 Megapixel sensor (e2v) down to -100 °C, avoiding the requirement for liquid nitrogen or unreliable cryo coolers.
The iKon-XL 230 model uses the e2v CCD230-84 back-illuminated sensor, offering a very large 61.4 x 61.4 mm imaging area from a 4096 x 4096 array format and 15 µm pixel size, ideal for applications such as Astronomy or X-ray/Neutron radiography.
Features
- 16.8 Megapixel sensor (CCD231-84)
- -100oC TE cooled (ColdSpace™)
- 2.1 e- read noise
- 350,000 e- well depth
- Standard silicon or deep depletion
- No liquid nitrogen or cryo-cooler
- 16-bit and 18-bit Digitisation
Key Applications
- Large sky surveys
- Exoplanet studies
- Asteroid observations
- Photometry
- Astro-spectroscopy
- X-ray astronomy
- Variable stars
Key Specifications
