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Brochure 7x8 USE rev 050505 5/9/05 9:43 AM Page 2 A Many-in-One Camera In 20 02, a small group of engineers, who had p reviously worked for Hewlett-Pa ck a rd designing The Trifid many-in-one camera for astronomers is now available. Trifid is a many-in-one camera because it is designed to support an ever growing list of highefficiency, enhanced-blue, medical-quality imaging chips. h i g h - q u a l i ty instruments, joined together under the banner of Yankee Robotics, LLC to build our own product. We challenged ourselves to design a state-of-the-art astronomical camera with i n c redible sensitivity and low noise for imaging deep-sky objects. We were determined that our c a m e ra would feature the firs t - rate hard w a re and Imaging chip Mega Type Well size Peak Diagonal -pixels µm QE size mm KAF-1603ME 1.5 mono 9 82% 16.6 KAF-3200ME 3.2 mono 6.8 88% 17.9 KAF-6303E 6.3 mono 9 67% 33.2 KAF-5101CE 5.1 color 6.8 31% 22.2 KAF-10100CE 10.7 color 6.8 35% 31.7 M=microlens, C=color, E=enhanced blue These imaging chips—which are the heart of any digital camera—are manufactured by Kodak to specifications especially suited for astronomers. They are the same chips used in the more expensive cameras built by our competitors, but Yankee Robotics offers the imaging chip in the Trifid Camera without markup. Kodak’s price is your price—just another way we keep your cost down. software that astronomers need at an attractive price. With the Trifid Camera, we believe we have succeeded.
Brochure 7x8 USE rev 050505 5/9/05 9:43 AM Page 3 Patent Pending Design Great pricing doesn’t mean sacrificing quality or features. Our Trifid-2 electronics have patent pending “single photon performance” and ultra-smooth background noise to give you incredibly deep images in less time than our competitors’ cameras can. A frame buffer built into the camera and high-speed USB 2.0 downloads means the images stream out in a hurry. “Saving You Time®” is not just our motto and registered trademark: it is our passion. Among Trifid’s advantages is its electronic cooling system with water assist. This system regulates the temperature of the imaging chip up to 50 degrees Celsius below the water jacket temperature, which itself is cooled by water. The light, compact camera body is CNC machined from aircraft-quality billet aluminum to precise specifications, and the durable quarter-inch shell is anodized dull-black for a low-reflective finish. Outstanding Efficiency Unlike some cameras that have a coverslip attached to the imaging chip, Yankee Robotics has eliminated the coverslip, which improves the camera’s overall efficiency by letting more light through. Our only window has a broadband antireflective coating with high throughput from the ultra-violet into the infra-red. You won’t believe how much hydrogen-alpha filtered light comes through with the coverslip removed. Additional features make Trifid ex c e p t i o n a l : • Real five-vane shutter make 0.02 second exposures a reality . Additional features con’t. • Adjustable gain and bias lets you tune the camera to your mission and achieve single photon performance. • High-speed USB 2.0 interface and a frame buffer means that downloading a six mega-pixel (12 MB) image takes less than two seconds. User-Friendly, Flexible Software As astronomers ourselves, we know that superior hardware and an array of technological features is not enough. So, we continued to pursue our goals to provide a well-priced, competitive product by writing software that ensures Trifid is functional and user-friendly. This software gives astro-photographers a great “out of box” experience, and makes the complex, multistage process of taking astro-photographs as effortless as possible. Plus, we give you the source code for our GUI application, which means that the software can be modified and adapted according to your needs and preferences. The Trifid Camera software is designed with the following features: • Graphical program written in Visual Basic controls the camera. • We provide the drivers so you can control Trifid from CCDSoft, MaxIm/DL or AstroArt. • Exposed COM interface on the camera driver permits you to connect Trifid to a wide variety of software. • Split design for electronics keeps low-noise analog circuitry on one board, digital circuitry on the other. The boards are bridged by a low noise, 16-bit analog-to-digital converter.
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