Thread: Adding to M42
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Old 20-09-2014, 03:39 PM
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I'm with Kevin. I go for a roughly grey background with a mean of around 20/65535 levels (16 bit). The variance of the background will be around 10-15 levels generally with good data.

Photon signals are Poisson distributed - there is no such thing as a black background - so to making the background black is not only jarring to look at, it's also technically incorrect.
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