Approximate Photon Count Rates for a 25.4-cm Aperture

Meade LX200 Schmidt-Cassegrain Receiving Telescope

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The PROSETI (Professional Optical SETI) Detectability Margin is the best SNR obtainable for an efficient photon counting system, such as a Multichannel Scaler, that counts all incoming photons and does not detect with a high threshold to reduce the data rate as described elsewhere for lower-cost AMOSETI systems.

 


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