One thing I am not sure of is does the quantum efficiency decrease with temperature drop or does it increase? I know that the noise decreases with a decrease in temperature, but does the QE also decrease or any other criteria related to wanted signal? Removing as much unwanted noise is good, removing signal is not good...I accept that we are wanting to improve the S/N ratio which we are doing by decreasing the noise, but sometimes that is not the whole picture. I have seen dark images of 60 minute exposures where there is very little noise...now please point that camera to the stars and show us some results, preferably alongside a stock camera that hasn't been cooled. I am sure that the cooled camera will win hands down, but by how much?