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Old 02-02-2008, 11:27 PM
jase (Jason)
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Good start to the project Roger. If you do intend to start acquiring the data for scientific purposes, keep tools that change pixel values out of the automation sequence. This is the reason why dedicated astronomy software like CCDsoft and MaximDL have screen stretch functions that don't modify pixel values, but stretch the image using a different buffer. As soon as you tamper with the real pixel values, it will be impossible to determine absolute star magnitudes in the data - rather important as you could imagine!
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