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Subject: RE: [M]: ccd/analog bin
From: Bruce Johnston
Reply To: mapug@shore.net
Date: Sun Dec 15 01:34:01 1996

>Date: Sat, 14 Dec 1996 23:03:34 -0600
>From: Michael Hart <mhart@netexpress.net>
>Sender: owner-mapug@shore.net
>To: "'MAPUG Mail'" <mapug@shore.net>
>Subject: RE: [M]: ccd/analog bin
>
>Bruce Segal wrote on 12/14/96:
>>>
>>>What is the difference between 2x2 bin (which is done at the
computer
>>>after it recieves the image) and analog bin (done before the
computer
>>>gets the image)?
>>>Thanks, Bruce
>>
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>
>>Bruce Johnson replied on 12/14/96:
>.................
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>Bruce Johnson,
>
>Bruce Segal did not say in his post that he owns the Pictor 1616.
>I assumed his question was specifically about his Pictor 1616 CCD,
>which he has asked several questions about. My answer was based
>on that premise. I may have assumed too much.
>
>
>
>Your response is appropriate for the information given.
>
>
>Michael Hart
>
>

Thanks for clarifying, Michael, but upon reflection, I think the
answer he was actually looking for really was yours. I was thinking
only from a technical standpoint and not a practical one.

Fact is, I think the *real* benefits to binning at the camera
instead after downloading, is because a person is lazy. If he can
bin enough pixels, he needn't even guide the scope! He can just
stand there for a minute or two and let whatever image that can get
there, get there. No guiding, no nothing! Lazy, lazy, lazy!

Now, before anyone takes offense to that, please realize I'm
talking about ME! Most of my images are binned and it's because I
can reduce the exposure time enough to often not have to guide,
which is fine with me. So sue me!

At any rate, thanks again, Michael. Keep me on the "practical"
side if I take off on a technical tangent again in the future.

Bruce
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