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Mods - if there's a better place for this, please move pronto - ta muchly.

I have a ZWO 120MC-S in use as an allskycam. I am using AllSkEye software.

I seem plagued with a noisy sensor. After dropping my exposures down to 5 second, I seem to have no clearer images! I started with 45 seconds and could view the MW. I dropped gain down to 20.

I've used both Darks and Bad Pixel Mapping - though there appears to be little to chose in terms of image clarity.

Am I on a lost cause with this camera? I have a peltier, but the chance of me being able to attach it to the camera is fairly small!

My Dark attached for comments. (15 * 15 second exposures)......and an image ( @ 15 seconds )....
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My 120mc has the same noise problem, its the camera, I emailed ZWO and they tested it out and got the same thing. Not very good for long exposures. The camera "Specs" as to long exposure is not accurate.
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I had much the same response from both the supplier and ZWO.

Do you manage to get rid of any noise through darks or bpm?
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