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Sky Subtraction

The intensity of the background night sky now needs to be estimated and subtracted from each of the aligned arrays. The sky may be polarized, and so this needs to be performed independently within each of the aligned arrays.



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POLPACK
Starlink User Note 223
D.S. Berry & T.M. Gledhill
26th February 2003
E-mail:ussc@star.rl.ac.uk

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