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Old 29-10-2018, 02:10 PM
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Originally Posted by glend View Post
As far as flats are concerned, honestly I never use them. If you keep your filters clean, and your camera and scope optics, there is no need.
Flats also correct for vignetting and variation in sensitivity between pixels (which causes fixed pattern noise.) I doubt that you'll find many folks producing high quality astro images that don't do flat-field correction.
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