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Old 02-10-2017, 10:30 AM
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Originally Posted by Slawomir View Post
Shallower wells but also usually less read noise. However, in spite of having lower read noise, dynamic range is generally lower with smaller pixels, so more shorter exposures are needed if we want to control saturation of stars.
That's what I suspected. I guess the trade off then is in image processing time?

Is it possible to get the same depth in an image with many short exposures vs fewer longer ones?
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