TIL my dark frame library was useless after 3 years of shooting

I spent hours in PixInsight wondering why my images had this weird pattern noise. Turns out I was using dark frames I took back in 2021 when my camera temperature calibration was off by 6 degrees. Has anyone else realized their calibration frames were bad that long after the fact?

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brown.reese1mo ago

Feel free to frame that one as a learning experience and hang it on the wall.

the_wyatt1mo ago

Bruh that hurts. I've wasted so many nights on bad calibration data too.