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They Work
And How to Correct for the Errors
They Make Along the Way
1. Read-Out Noise
Bucket-brigading those buckets full of electrons
one column across at a time and then into the
wires, you can gain or lose a few along the way.
How to deal?
A. If its a major noise source, dont read out
your chip any more often than necessary.
B. Spend more money on your detector chip.
(CCDs are better than CMOS chips in this
regard;
CCDs read-out noise typically about a dozen
electrons per pixel. Tiny!
CMOS chips usually what is used in commercial nonastronomical digital cameras like in your iPhone and point/shoot
pocket cameras, and even in expensive DSLRs).
For daylight photography, usually you have PLENTY of photons
and so readout noise doesnt matter, so CMOS chips are fine
for daylight photography.
Color Pictures?
So, how is color information gotten in this
process? It seems that any photon more
energetic than a 1-micron IR photon will
get counted equally, regardless of color.
Yes, so you need to color filter what
photons get to your pixel.
There are Two Ways to do this