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Old 03-02-2010, 07:32 PM
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Hi Fred,

Have you seen Richard Crisp's articles?

http://www.narrowbandimaging.com/home_page.htm

in particular this article regarding the 16803 chip (I'm sure he has tested the 6303 as well):

http://www.narrowbandimaging.com/ima...port_crisp.pdf

The graph on page 15 tells the story. Heavy going but worth understanding. Basically, you want to go past -25C for narrowband imaging if you can. As an example have a look at the pink curved line, which is a plot of noise versus temperature for a 10 minute exposure. At -25C it hasn't dipped below the bold dashed horizontal line (the 100% line) which means that the exposure is dark noise limited. It's not until you cool to -33C that the line drops below the bold dashed line and is no longer limited by dark noise. If you were planning for 10 minute subs I would be aiming for -35C with this chip.

In all cases he has assumed the sky background brightness is 0, problably a valid assumption at f9 and observing from a dark sky with narrowband filters.

Terry
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