As well as imaging Venus, German researcher Dr. Sebastian Voltmer has captured Saturn in NIR (890 nm) through a C11 EdgeHD telescope with an attached SWIR camera from Raptor Photonics, specifically the Ninox 640 II SWIR.
Dr. Voltmer spoke about the improved signal-to-noise ratio that the Raptor Photonics Ninox 640 II SWIR provides when he was using it to image Venus a couple of years ago:
“In my previous images of Venus from May 2020 I only used planetary CCD cameras with NIR sensitivity. It was hard to get any signal of Venus’s surface. But with the cooled Ninox 640 II SWIR camera I got a much better signal-to-noise ratio. With the Ninox 640 II SWIR camera I was able to reveal the surface and the lower clouds in one image”
Dr. Sebastian Voltmer
Raptor Photonics Ninox 640 II VIS-SWIR Camera
High resolution, low-noise, digital InGaAs camera. One of the most compact and lightweight scientific SWIR cameras on the market.
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