Cameras, CCD and CMOS sensors
CMOS sensor-based astro cameras have recently come to the fore and have really changed the game in amateur as well as professional astronomy.
The cameras used in the images from New Jersey on this site are the ZWO ASI2400MC, ASI071MC and the ASI2600MM. The most recent setup since late 2023 is the ASI2400MC camera, which has a full frame sensor: the Sony IMX410 sensor, 24MP, 5.94um pixels, AND 100ke- well depth. With the AGO 12.5 scope this gives a field of view 58x39arc-min.
Since late 2023 in Chile we are using the Moravian C5A 100M CMOS camera with the Planewave-24 telescope. This is a mono camera used with LRGB and narrow-band Ha, O3, and S2 filters. This camera has the latest generation of extremely large Sony IMX CMOS sensors with 11664 x 8750 pixels (100Million pixels) which we use in binned 2x2 mode. The sensor dimensions are 44x33mm giving a field of view 36x27arc-min
The images taken remotely from Chile before 2023 used cameras with CCD sensors, the KAF-16803 CCD full frame sensor in FLI and SBIG configurations.