Table 2. ShadowCam specifications

Parameter Value
FOV 2.86°
IFOV (nadir) 17.16 μrad
Pixel scale at 100-km altitude 1.7 meter
Max. swath size at 100-km altitude 5.2 km × 144 km
f/# 3.6
Focal length 699.275 ± 0.01 mm
Distortion coefficient k 0.0000174 ± 0.00000057
Optical center location sample 1558 (1545, 1572 95% bounds)
Primary mirror diameter 195 mm
Aperture 194.4 mm
System MTF (Nyquist) 0.21
Gain 23 to 30 e−/DN
Read noise 60 e−
Detector full-well (shallow, deep) 94,000; 123,000 e−
S/N (@ 0.12 W/m2/sr/um) 100
Spectral response 410–780 nm
Radiometric accuracy 1% relative, 6% absolute
Active pixels 3,072
Maximum lines 84,992
Detector digitization 12 bit, encoded to 8 bit
Data link to spacecraft 4 Mbps
Temperature sensors 4
Voltage 28 ± 7 V DC
Peak power 9.3 W
Standby power 4.5 W
Mass 8.75 kg
Volume (length × diameter) 118 cm × 27 cm (incl. radiator)
See Humm et al. (2023) with CC-BY-NC for details on shallow vs. deep sides of the detector. See Table 2 of Robinson et al. (2010) for a similar table presenting LROC NAC parameters.
FOV, field of view; IFOV, instantaneous field-of-view; MTF, modulation transfer function; LROC NAC, Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera Narrow Angle Camera.