Ah, got it. I should have figured it out from the mention of shot noise following Poisson statistics.
Thanks,
Shail
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- Sat Oct 31, 2020 2:25 pm
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Re: Picking the correct exposure for Deep Sky
Hello Dr. Glover, Thank you for a lucid explanation. I may be reading this wrong but references to read noise in units of electrons and to the symbol as sigma_r lead to a units mismatch in the equation for stack noise. Background sky noise ~ tQrp,sky ~ units of electrons Read noise ~ sigma_r ~ units...