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Old 01-02-2006, 11:04 PM
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Originally Posted by tornado33
I mentioned at Lostock that I deliberately move the scope slightly between each exposure (by moving the guidestar pick off prism in the off axis guider slightly). This means that when I stack the images, each one is moved slightly, this sees that the same actual pixels arent stacked on top of each other, as I think some of the noise ocurrs in the same pixels each time. Moving them smears out this noise,(at least it seems to work here),Scott
Interesting Scott, that's also the same principal we use in planetary imaging when stacking avi's. This movement weeds out the noise and increases detail.
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