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Old 05-12-2011, 02:35 PM
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Not sure what you are copying from there.

There's the source extraction setup;
defaults are:

detection threshold 10
minimum number of pixels above threshold 10
number of deplending thresholds 32
analysis threshold 1.5
minimum contrast for deplending 0.005
mask type 0
aperture diameters 5 in pixels
photometry Kron factor 2.5
saturation level 65535
magnitude zero point 10
background mesh size 32
background filter size 1
detector gain 0
size of pixel (arc secs) 2.35 (in my case at 1x1 although I image for plate solving at 2x2, previously in T-point you had to enter 1x1 binning scale)

seeing 1.2 FWHM (as if - I'll change this to 3.2, I don't think I've ever seen 1.2)
cleaning efficiency 1.0
clean (1=yes) 0



A lot of these terms are meaningless to me. But the ones I understand are the first 2 (they are explained) so it looks like I may need to lower both of them.

The arc secs/pixel should be 2.35 which is the 1x1 binned image scale of this setup.

Seeing should be changed to 3.2 which would be more accurate for this area.

Do I need to change the other settings?

Greg.
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