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Old 30-12-2009, 09:02 PM
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Originally Posted by Peter Ward View Post
Yep. You also need *flux* with statistically significant intensity, without it, you are just collecting noise.
Quite true. Some amateurs have been able to detect stars that were so faint that on average the signal rate was 1 electron per 10 seconds. At 10 frames per second, statistically only 1 in 100 frames would actually record a signal from that star!

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