Space Telescope Science Institute   5.2.4 Signal-To-Noise Ratios  5.3 Wide Field Optical CCD Imaging

5.2.5 Saturation


Both CCD and SBC imaging observations are subject to saturation at high total accumulated counts per pixel. For the CCDs, this is due either to the depth of the full well or to the 16 bit data format. For the SBC, this is due to the 16 bit format of the buffer memory (see Section 4.3.1 and Section 4.5.2).


 5.2.4 Signal-To-Noise Ratios  5.3 Wide Field Optical CCD Imaging
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