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Old 10-08-2013, 01:00 PM
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Nice work, Peter. You've captured a lot of very faint stuff.

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Originally Posted by Peter.M View Post
Martin Pugh commented on the image and said that for narrowband imaging long subs were better. This made sense to me because then you can get long integration times without too much diminishing returns on stacking lots of frames.
This is correct but the reasoning is wrong. Long exposures are better for narrowband because the signal is relatively weak and the camera read noise swamps it in short exposures.
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