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Old 12-08-2015, 04:41 PM
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You want to aim for about 33-50% saturation of your camera's sensor for flats:

saturation=well capacity/gain.

On my STL-11000M, it has 50,000 well capacity and 0.8 electron ADU gain:

50,000/0.8=62,500 ADU saturation point.

So, you'd aim for 20,625 to 31,250 ADU.

Substitute values for your 8300-sensor.

I worked out an optimal value, which was around the 42% mark for some reason. Either way, I've put my minimum and maximum ADU values in CCD Commander and it takes care of the rest.

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