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Old 19-06-2015, 11:16 PM
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Originally Posted by rmuhlack View Post
A very interesting seminar. I have a question though - how is using 10 lens at once more advantageous than taking 10 subs with one lens and camera (other than increasing throughput by a factor of 10) ?

It's the same result except there would be no other way to
capture 10 times the data in the same amount of time.
The noise would decrease by a factor of the square root of 10
or 3.2 times better.
This means he can go deeper & see low surface brightness.

I always liked the idea of having more than one identical telescope on the same mount.
e.g. Rolf Olsen has shown us all what you can do with long integration times.
He made the best hamburger in town - LOL

cheers
Allan
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