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Originally Posted by Octane
Duncan,
I'll probably get shot down for this, but, I'd advise against going down the path of creating a library of darks -- the dynamics of your sensor vary depending on a number of variables (temperature/humidity, et. al.) and no matter what you do, you won't be able to recreate the same characteristics, weather-wise, as when you were out imaging. You will inevitably gain hot/dead/stuck pixels over time. If you owned a good quality CCD, it's a different story, you could probably get away with a library of darks with controlled temperature.
Of course, this all hinges on how accurate you want to be and how much effort you want to put into your images (do you want to be able to print them and hang them on the wall?). I don't necessarily agree with the whole starting-out-so-take-it-easy approach. My personal way of doing things is to do them properly (or to the best of my ability) the first time. Throw yourself in the deep end and learn how to swim. I get a lot more out of it this way. I know it's different for everyone.
Imaging is like climbing a mountain, it's not easy.
My $0.02 AUD, only.
Regards,
Humayun
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no mate, i can see your reasoning, thats some good advice.
