Tarantula Nebula - very bright on 27 Feb 2015

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PETER LOO
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Re: Tarantula Nebula - very bright on 27 Feb 2015

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Thanks Remus :) , now still struggling with the Read out noise, not sure how to go about reducing it without changing the cam ..
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Re: Tarantula Nebula - very bright on 27 Feb 2015

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Hi Peter, the cure to readout noise is lots and lots of subs. :D
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Re: Tarantula Nebula - very bright on 27 Feb 2015

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Hi Orly, thanks :) will experiment with that too .. meanwhile, i cheat a little by using Gaussian blur Mask 1 time to smooth out the background and then pulled the background darker so that the noise becomes less obvious to the eyes [smilie=beaten.gif] & lastly cropped, it looks like this,

ImageTaratula less read noise by Astro shots & stuff, on Flickr
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