Good evening everyone,
As the weather isn't cooperating, I decided to do a SharpCap sensor analysis on my ASI533MC-Pro. I ran it twice just to make sure that the results were more or less consistent, and now I want to see what (if any) improvements I can make to my imaging.
The results are as follows:
Sensor linearity is 33%
Measured bit depth is 14 (13.69)
Based on the data, I have drawn a few conclusions:
I can see that my true unity gain is 121. But I don’t understand the real-life implications of using this instead of 101 (which is what I use now). I can see that the full well at 121 is less than at 100, but this would affect stars mostly, for which I usually take short exposures with my IR Cut filter. I my mind, this mitigates the lower full well capacity. - Please correct me if I’m wrong.
The hit to the dynamic range is 0.5 stops (going from 101 to 121). Is this something that is actually visible? I would imagine this would be more evident when shooting broadband.
Integrating subs taken until now with 101 gain with future subs taken with 121 gain would be fine, as I would use the correct session’s dark library.
3.1. Will PixInsight’s WBPP be able to sort the dark frames correctly? (Assuming I put them in the same folder as each light session, just like the flats).