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Old 14-12-2009, 07:08 PM
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Originally Posted by mldee View Post
Sorry for a stupid question from a learner but: Wouldn't it be simpler just to use darks and forgo the additional equipment complexity?

When the noise is about the size of your signal after you subtract the noise you get lovely holes in your faint data.

All of science is about signal to noise ratio. If you suppress or eliminate noise then obviously your signal to noise ratio is far better

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