I've been trying to get my head around the influence that different imaging equipment properties have on the final resulting image.
In part this comes from looking at some of the amazing images in the deep space forum and trying to figure out how I might be able to convert their acquisition details with the gear that they used to an equivalent for the gear that I have so that I can then benchmark my images against theirs.
So, lets take a hypothetical where we have two scope:
Scope 1 is a 200mm aperture f5
Scope 2 is a 300mm aperture f5
Obviously focal length is different for each, so lets assume we select a camera for each scope that gives each scope/camera combo an image scale of 1 arcsec per pixel. QE, well depth, read noise, dark noise and operating temperature for both cameras in this hypothetical are the same.
Each scope and camera combo is used under dark skies where seeing is limited to 2 arcsecs.
So - in what respect will the images from these two setups be different?
