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Does my sensor analysis graph look 'normal'?

Posted: Tue Dec 14, 2021 4:41 pm
by abmscopes
Hi, apologies if this sort of question gets asked a lot... This is the first time I've run sensor analysis. The results look a bit odd to me (not quite sure why other than they don't look like the one in the Sharpcap tutorial !
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The first time I ran the analysis it ran to the very end before returning an error after the binning tests. I then ran it again and it completed but the sky was darkening by then so I guess the light levels may not have been constant enough?
Camera is a OSC ZWO 294MC.
Thanks!

Re: Does my sensor analysis graph look 'normal'?

Posted: Wed Dec 15, 2021 1:34 pm
by admin
Hi,

the general shape and rough values are about right, but the fact that the values are jumping around a lot (especially the read noise - the red X's) is not right - it can happen if the illumination levels were varying during the final stages of the analysis when SharpCap is measuring the relative gains of the camera.

cheers,

Robin