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Red Noise: The Bad
Sources: Trends caused by changing airmass,
atmospheric conditions, telescope tracking, flat
field errors, fringing, etc. Usually it is combination
of several factors. Time scale of these is 2-3 hours
which is the same as transit timescales..
Atmospheric Extinction can affect colors of stars and photometric
precision of differential photometry since observations are done at
different air masses and these have a wavelength dependence
Major sources of extinction:
• Rayleigh scattering: cross section s per molecule ∝ l–4