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Offline Emanuele

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Creating masters....
« on: 2010 August 03 12:17:50 »
Hi all,

Quick question: I have taken 100 Bias frames with Maxim. And now I want to combine them with PI.

What's the best method to combine Bias, Darks and Flats? average, Median ..?
To do this I will just use the ImageaIntegration process, right?

E.

Offline Nocturnal

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Re: Creating masters....
« Reply #1 on: 2010 August 03 12:37:49 »
Hi,

I generally combine these with a sigma reject just in case there's a cosmic ray hit. So with PI I use Average with Sigma Clipping pixel rejection.
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Re: Creating masters....
« Reply #2 on: 2010 August 03 13:22:38 »
For that number of images, a sigma reject and averaging should yield better SNR.
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Offline Emanuele

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Re: Creating masters....
« Reply #3 on: 2010 August 03 14:42:56 »
Thanks guys.
Okay then, will use Sigma reject.

I also plan to start creating a dark library. Will use the same method.