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Old 22-04-2012, 02:47 PM
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Originally Posted by gregbradley View Post
STL 11 and FLI Proline 11002 use identical chips. But the surrounding electronics makes a huge difference. Look at 2 darks one from each camera. They certainly don't look like the same chip. One is almost noise free, the other very snowy.

Greg.
The problem with that analysis is whether or not the noise is correlated.

SBIG have sublime temperature regulation (1/100th of a degree)....better than most....hence you can ramp up the gain and get a tad more signal and, yes, you get snow, *but* when reduced the data has bugger-all correlated noise.

I have stacked thousands of frames with SBIG gear and have yet to see a correlated noise pattern build.
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