Re:1060-hour image of the Large Magellanic Cloud captured by...
by _ph_ on Monday April 15, 2019 @03:33AM
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Yes, with film there is the Schwarzschild-effect which causes the sensitivity and the color reaction vary with the exposure time.
While digital camera sensors usually pick up noise for long-time exposures, this is less an issue for astronomical cameras, because they fight this noise by cooling the CCD-chip. Usually the chip is cooled via a Peltier-element to temperatures below -20C, where thermal noise is very low.
While digital camera sensors usually pick up noise for long-time exposures, this is less an issue for astronomical cameras, because they fight this noise by cooling the CCD-chip. Usually the chip is cooled via a Peltier-element to temperatures below -20C, where thermal noise is very low.