Index: branches/eam_branches/ipp-20130904/psphot/src/psphotExtendedSourceFits.c
===================================================================
--- branches/eam_branches/ipp-20130904/psphot/src/psphotExtendedSourceFits.c	(revision 36310)
+++ branches/eam_branches/ipp-20130904/psphot/src/psphotExtendedSourceFits.c	(revision 36311)
@@ -315,5 +315,5 @@
 
 // XXX TEST 
-	    if (!isInteractive) {
+	    if (false && !isInteractive) {
 		if (!psThreadJobAddPending(job)) {
 		    psError(PS_ERR_UNKNOWN, false, "Unable to guess model.");
Index: branches/eam_branches/ipp-20130904/psphot/src/psphotSourceFits.c
===================================================================
--- branches/eam_branches/ipp-20130904/psphot/src/psphotSourceFits.c	(revision 36310)
+++ branches/eam_branches/ipp-20130904/psphot/src/psphotSourceFits.c	(revision 36311)
@@ -21,4 +21,5 @@
 
 bool psphotPCMfitCheckSize (pmPCMdata *pcm, pmSource *source, psImageMaskType maskVal, float psfSize);
+bool psphotPCMfitRetry (pmPCMdata *pcm, pmSource *source, pmSourceFitOptions *fitOptions, psImageMaskType maskVal, psImageMaskType markVal, float psfSize);
 
 bool psphotFitInit (int nThreads) {
@@ -652,5 +653,8 @@
     if (TIMING) { t4 = psTimerMark ("psphotFitPCM"); }
 
-    psphotPCMfitCheckSize (pcm, source, maskVal, psfSize);
+    if (pcm->modelConv->nIter == fitOptions->nIter) {
+	psphotPCMfitRetry (pcm, source, &options, maskVal, markVal, psfSize);
+    }
+    // psphotPCMfitCheckSize (pcm, source, maskVal, psfSize);
     if (TIMING) { t5 = psTimerMark ("psphotFitPCM"); }
 
@@ -1325,5 +1329,5 @@
 	    rMin = dref;
 	}
-	// fprintf (stderr, "%d | %f %f %f | %f %f %f\n", j, dref, Io, Chisq, rMin, iMin, xMin);
+	fprintf (stderr, "%d | %f %f %f | %f %f %f\n", j, dref, Io, Chisq, rMin, iMin, xMin);
     }
 
@@ -1344,2 +1348,67 @@
 }
 
+// we have an initial fit, check to see if the current size is besst
+bool psphotPCMfitRetry (pmPCMdata *pcm, pmSource *source, pmSourceFitOptions *fitOptions, psImageMaskType maskVal, psImageMaskType markVal, float psfSize) {
+
+    // PAR is already at my current best guess
+    psF32 *PAR = pcm->modelConv->params->data.F32;
+
+    // store best guess as a shape
+    psEllipseAxes centerAxes;
+    pmModelParamsToAxes (&centerAxes, PAR[PM_PAR_SXX], PAR[PM_PAR_SXY], PAR[PM_PAR_SYY], true);
+
+    // retry with axes smaller by 1 pixel
+    psEllipseAxes guessAxes;
+    guessAxes.major = centerAxes.major - 0.08;
+    guessAxes.minor = guessAxes.major * centerAxes.minor / centerAxes.major;
+    guessAxes.theta = centerAxes.theta;
+
+    if (!isfinite(guessAxes.major)) return false;
+    if (!isfinite(guessAxes.minor)) return false;
+    if (!isfinite(guessAxes.theta)) return false;
+
+    // convert the major,minor,theta to shape parameters for an Reff-like model
+    pmModelAxesToParams (&PAR[PM_PAR_SXX], &PAR[PM_PAR_SXY], &PAR[PM_PAR_SYY], guessAxes, true);
+
+    // generated the modelFlux
+    pmPCMMakeModel (source, pcm->modelConv, maskVal, psfSize);
+	
+    float YY = 0.0;
+    float YM = 0.0;
+    float MM = 0.0;
+    bool usePoisson = false;
+
+    for (int iy = 0; iy < source->pixels->numRows; iy++) {
+	for (int ix = 0; ix < source->pixels->numCols; ix++) {
+	    // skip masked points
+	    if (source->maskObj->data.PS_TYPE_IMAGE_MASK_DATA[iy][ix]) {
+		continue;
+	    }
+	    // skip zero-variance points
+	    if (source->variance->data.F32[iy][ix] == 0) {
+		continue;
+	    }
+	    // skip nan value points
+	    if (!isfinite(source->pixels->data.F32[iy][ix])) {
+		continue;
+	    }
+
+	    float fy = source->pixels->data.F32[iy][ix];
+	    float fm = source->modelFlux->data.F32[iy][ix];
+	    float wt = (usePoisson) ? 1.0 / source->variance->data.F32[iy][ix] : 1.0;
+
+	    YY += PS_SQR(fy) * wt;
+	    YM += fm * fy * wt;
+	    MM += PS_SQR(fm) * wt;
+	}
+    }
+
+    float Io = YM / MM;
+    PAR[PM_PAR_I0] = Io;
+
+    pmSourceFitPCM (pcm, source, fitOptions, maskVal, markVal, psfSize);  // NOTE : 1687 allocs in here
+
+    return true;
+}
+
+