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Old 14-12-2009, 10:20 PM
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Originally Posted by avandonk View Post
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

Bert
OK, makes sense.

As a total novice, most comments I read in this forum tend to suggest that darks + PS are the all -singing, all-dancing answer to an astro-maiden's prayer. Obviously not!

Physics does reign supreme. Sorta glad of that.
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