Andor has introduced the new largest commercially available sCMOS camera with a 16.9 Mpx sensor (70 mm diagonal), designed especially for dynamic astronomical observations. Balor is the ideal camera for photometric and astrometric measurements on time scales from milliseconds to tens of seconds. It is the ideal camera for applications such as:
- Space Debris Tracking.
- Solar Astronomy
- Solar System Object detection
- Asteroid Tracking
- Exoplanet Discovery
- Supernovae Detection
- Atmospheric Studies
The Balor camera combines a low read noise of 2.9 e- with an extremely high sensor readout rate of 18.5 milliseconds, allowing for a rate of up to 54 frames per second. This is the perfect combination for studying solar or atmospheric dynamics.
The fast sensor readout, 2,500 times faster compared to a CCD sensor, allows for significantly faster measurements in the search for exoplanets.
The Balor camera has both modes of sCMOS sensor readout, i.e. both ´Roslling Shutter´, for maximum speed (frames/sec), and ´Global Shutter´ for applications where all pixels need to be read out in the same time.