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Originally Posted by Eric Hahl
Thanks Richard. It’s amazing what today’s technology allows us to do.
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A huge step is being able to add together images across several nights, even from several different telescopes and cameras. Before, you pretty much were limited to what you could put together in one night, or *maybe* 2 or 3 if you had a completely permanent setup, but now with plate solving, you can slowly build up 5, 6, 10 hour color bands over many nights, and use different resolution setups to bring different parts of the image together.
Adding the Luminance channel was the quantum step when I was doing imaging, while plate solving is the newest quantum step.