Re: Comet Picture Question

2001-06-29 Thread Doctor Digi
> Another reason this is often done is to improve signal-to-noise ratio in the > final image. A single twenty minute exposure is going to be degraded to > some extent by twenty minutes of atmospheric turbulence, scattered light > from cars passing in the distance, etc. By shortening the duratio

Re: Comet Picture Question

2001-06-29 Thread aimcompute
- From: "Peifer, William [OCDUS]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, June 29, 2001 6:39 AM Subject: RE: Comet Picture Question > Tom C. (aimcompute) inquired thus about stacked astro-exposures: > > The picture credits at the above link

RE: Comet Picture Question

2001-06-29 Thread Peifer, William [OCDUS]
Tom C. (aimcompute) inquired thus about stacked astro-exposures: > The picture credits at the above link says the image is a combination > of 4 exposures totaling 20 minutes. > I was wondering why, but came up with the reciprocity failure issue as > I was writing this. Is that the reason? Does