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Old 12-03-2009, 10:01 PM
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I think the point of stacking is to average out the (randomly distributed) noise. Ie the noise in one frame is in a different location in the next whereas the image is always in the same position so taking an average re-inforces the signal and reduces the noise level. If you stack the same image the noise will be in the same position in all the frames so will not average out.
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