ASI1600 failing? (No, my mistake.....)

[Endolf]

Hi

I started taking some darks this evening having not used my gear for a month only to find I now have a huge number of hot pixels in my darks, has anyone else experienced anything like this?, is it terminal?, I've only had the ASI1600MM Pro camera since the beginning of May and only got in a few sessions before losing astro darkness. The darks I got back then appeared ok, so it wasn't defective on arrival. I've attached a sample from the middle of one of the darks and attached the fits files if anyone can shed any light on it.

Thanks

Dark_300_secs_005.fits Dark_300_secs_004.fits

Edited June 10, 2020 by Endolf

[Endolf]

My mistake, I just stretched one of the original darks and it has a very similar pattern of hot pixels, so it seems they have been there from the start.