

However even dithered images can show walking noise depending on the scales of the correlated noise and the dither. Dithering certainly helps and should always be done. Whenever the topic of walking noise comes up, there is a chorus of people who say that dithering is the solution. It takes a span of geological time and results in a file that's about half a gigabyte, but might be worth it. Mark, Deep Sky Stacker has a 2x2 drizzle option for drizzle stacking. Finer granularity noise is easier to remove with noise reduction. I recommend Bayer drizzle stacking because it leads to finer granularity noise in the stack.

This is an unfortunate side-effect of the spatial filtering that's applied to the raw data but changes from model to model. Dark subtraction and/or dark optimisation is not very effective on some Nikon DSLR cameras.

