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Estimate your SNR with this equation:

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Where itime is the integration time per exposure in seconds, expnum is the number of exposures (must >=4, 1x ABBA), Kmag is the K magnitude of the target, and seeing is in arcseconds.


For example, four 600s exposures on a K=10 target with 0.6" seeing will give you:


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The same target with the same exposure time but in 1.0" seeing will give:


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Typical seeing at McDonald observatory is ~1.0".


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