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Old 25-10-2016, 12:52 PM
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barx1963 (Malcolm)
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Why we use flats!!

I managed to collect some data last night. I had some flats that I took on Sat night and the setup was the same so decided to use them to process. As an exercise I processed the same stuff (NGC1365) using just the Lum files both with and without flats. Image is a stack of 6x300s subs processed in DSS and given some moderately aggressive stretching in PS CC 2015.
First image only had darks applied while I went full hog on the second image, darks, flats, dark flats and bias frames.
No other processing apart from the stretch. I think the second image I went a bit further with the stretch to the point where a gradient can be seen(from local light pollution I think as the target was still fairly low in the east when I took the subs.)

Malcolm
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