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successful night out. Nights can become cloudy or foggy, the full
Moon can shine too much, the seeing can be extremely bad… Number
of things can come bad, but the bad luck never lasts forever. Start with
bright objects (globular clusters, planetary nebulae) and learn the
technique. Then proceed to more difficult dimmer objects.
If you are new to CCD imaging and terms like “dark frame”, “read noise” and
“image binning” sound strange to you, refer to the “Introduction to CCD
Imaging” chapter of the SIMS software documentation. This chapter explains
basic principles of CCD operation and their usage in astronomy, discusses color
imaging, CCD chip dark current and camera read noise, chip resolution and
pixel scales in relation to telescope focal length, explains basic image
calibration etc.
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