The job of the calibration frames is to calibrate the light frames, i.e., the actual images of your target, by removing from them:

• Different kinds of noise
• Vignetting
• Specks of dust or other imperfection in your optical setup

This allows you to “clean up” the light frames before you register and stack them, to produce the final image.

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