This image was (at last partially) acquired during the Pavel Pech’s
visit in Chile, where he observed total solar eclipse, with Borg 77ED
refractor. But the image special from one more reason – its luminance
channel is the very first image of a deep-space object, acquired with
a prototype of the cooled C2-12000 CMOS camera. Due to lack of time,
chromatic information was taken from an older image, captured with
G3-11000 CCD camera. Either way, even the very first cooled CMOS
camera prototype was able to capture nice image (of course also thank
to experience and skill of Pavel Pech). And production cooled C2
cameras, which are just around the corner, bring numerous
enhancements.
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