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Announcement: New Applications
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Yes, they could definitely be noisy looking because they aren't calibrated yet. That can make a big difference. When I am taking my data live, it doesn't autocalibrate. I do that after the fact. When I look at the images as they are coming in to see how good they are (or aren't), I'll hit the calibrate button for that image. It's still fun to watch the image get suddenly much cleaner and to see the stars pop out so much more clearly.
You'll notice that they are all displayed as negative in the VPhot manual and the VPhot tutorial videos too. That's normal operation.
Clearest skies,
Walt
Whoops. Very…
Thanks Walt,
Whoops. Very senior moment there. I was taken aback because they appear to be very noisy. Is it because I haven't calibrated them yet.
I was just running a few through VPhot to see if my exposures were near to optimum.
Yes, they could definitely be noisy looking because they aren't calibrated yet. That can make a big difference. When I am taking my data live, it doesn't autocalibrate. I do that after the fact. When I look at the images as they are coming in to see how good they are (or aren't), I'll hit the calibrate button for that image. It's still fun to watch the image get suddenly much cleaner and to see the stars pop out so much more clearly.
-Walt
Thanks Walt,
I'm a beginner at this and my system doesn't auto-calibrate so I have to learn how to do that.
Regards
Kevin