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Old 12-12-2011, 10:15 AM
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I think there are a number of different factors involved here but saturation alone is enough to explain a degree of bloat on bright stars. When the top of a star profile starts to get truncated by reaching full well depth the FWHM will increase. A diagram would help to make this clear but I don't have time to draw one right now...

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