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testing22321 8 hours ago

The noise from a single image of that duration would be unworkable. Even if there were no planes or satellites, nobody would take that as a single exposure.

teamonkey 6 hours ago | parent [-]

Signal scales with exposure time, noise scales with the root of exposure time. So although the noise increases with time, the signal-noise ratio increases faster. When dealing with astronomy photos, you want to maximise SNR.

(This is a simplification, there are many types of noise including shot noise and thermal noise, but in general this is the rule of thumb you use)