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Is more frames always better?

Started by Astrovale, 03/01/2006 06:51PM
Posted 03/01/2006 06:51PM Opening Post
Hello guys,

I believe the question is pretty clear from the subject: is it always better to stack more frames? Is there a trade off between quantity and quality and where should it be placed. I have manually selected the stack for some of my images and I must admit that the difference in the outcome hardly justified the effort of the manual selection. Is it a problem with my images or is it like this even for you guys?

I always thought that a few hundred frames were more than enough, but I hear that somebody captures several thousands and stacks thousands of frames to get a better S/N ratio. But doesn't the image quality degrade if some of the images stacked are of poor quality? I'd love to hear what you guys have to say about this, if anything.


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Luca 8)

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