Friday, November 20, 2009

First image with the Xenics IR camera!


Victory is ours! After a little bit of fiddling with the Linux SDK that accompanied our new Xenics IR camera (and some help from the Xenics folks), we finally took our first image today!

320x256 pixels may not look very impressive when deca-megapixel digital cameras can be purchased for a couple hundred of dollars, but this baby is sensitive to near infrared light (from 0.9 to 1.7 microns) and has a fairly fast readout... which makes it perfect for IR low-order wavefront sensing and maybe even for some science.

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