Physics

Charge Coupled Devices in Astronomy

Charge Coupled Devices in Astronomy

Charge Coupled Devices first developed in the 1960s as memory storage devices. Sensitivity to light suggested imaging possibilities. Her briefly focus on History of CCDs; How do CCDs work and Advantages of CCD. A charge-coupled device  is a light-sensitive integrated circuit that stores and displays the data for an image in such a way that each pixel (picture element) in the image is converted into an electical charge the intensity of which is related to a color in the color spectrum.