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Old 07-12-2007, 10:31 AM
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Unhappy Help with Spotty Darks

Is this normal or am I doing something wrong?

I took some lights and darks last night with the (unmodded) 350D on the ED80/EQ6. It was reasonably mild, about 18deg-19deg ambient.

The lights look fine (although washed out from light pollution and low altitude), but the darks are incredibly spotty - so when they are subtracted from the lights, I end up with dark spots everywhere.

They're best seen in the full-size versions, so I uploaded a sample image to show you. They're just converted to 8-bit and saved as medium-quality jpegs (around 500kb each).

1. Raw light image (300s, ISO800)
2. Raw dark image (300s, ISO800)
3. Stack of 5 x median combined darks (all at 300s, ISO800) using ImagesPlus
4. Calibrated light from the stacked dark. You can see the black spots.

Ignore the jpeg compression artifacts.

I've attached a 800px resized version of #4, but as I said it's much more obvious in the full size version.

So, what am I doing wrong?
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