07-18-2020 10:51 AM - edited 07-18-2020 10:55 AM
I went out to photograph C/2020 NEOWISE F3. Some pictures came out well, but nearly all had artifacts, dozens of them. You can tell the stars from the artifacts because long exposure caused blurr.
As an experiment, I took a long (30 second) exposure in a completely dark room and they showed up in that one too.
The red is the reflection of the SD Write LED in the mirror.
Camera: 70D, exposure: 30 seconds, ISO 400
Some show up as white "X"s, some show as red pixels and some show up as blue pixels.
You have to download the image to see it. They don't show up on this post.
Any help/comment would be appreciated.
07-18-2020 11:04 AM
Hot pixels, that is why your camera has a dark frame removal setting. After a long exposure, the camera will take another exposure of the same time with the shutter closed, and subtract any pixels that show up.
07-18-2020 03:45 PM
@kvbarkley wrote:Hot pixels, that is why your camera has a dark frame removal setting. After a long exposure, the camera will take another exposure of the same time with the shutter closed, and subtract any pixels that show up.
Thanks, that seemed to work on the aforementioned experiment. Let's see how it turns out tonight.
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