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Old 25-05-2016, 09:08 PM
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strongmanmike (Michael)
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Originally Posted by Slawomir View Post
And that is perfectly okay when you have big...huh...pixels and you end up with stacking 10-20 long subs, but most of us with small...huh...pixels , doing many short subs, can in some circumstances benefit from subtracting bias.

And now some folks are taking about stacking hundreds of very short subs, so I would imagine that subtracting a bias would be essential, otherwise fixed camera patterns may show up with aggressive stretching due to a low SNR in a single short sub.
Hey you may be right, I was just being slightly flippant ...but my pixels are only 4.5 micron btw and I generally only use 5 or 10min subs sometimes less

Mike
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