I unboxed this new CCD Camera today, installed the drivers, and fired it up. Here are my first impressions from test images:

Bias frames (0.09s exposure time) at 0°C temperature are very clean. This is the shortest possible exposure time but is close to the 0s exposure of a true bias frame. The readout noise measured from 2 bias frames is 5.18e-, assuming SBIG’s nominal gain of 0.38e-/ADU is correct. To get a more definitive value, I will have to calculate the gain and re-measure the readout noise. The screenshots below show the images in Mira Pro x64.

A Bias frame taken at 0°C.

Readout Noise Calculation from 2 bias frames.