Changes between Version 4 and Version 5 of Ask_an_expert

Timestamp:

May 11, 2009, 10:37:53 AM (17 years ago)

Author:

Sebastian Jester

Comment:

Answer about per-night stacks

Ask_an_expert

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    stacked immediately, and objects detected on the stack? Or only on
    individual images?
+
+   '''Answer''' (Gene): The current strategy doesn't have a stack of the 
+   2-way images, just `chip cam fake warp`, then two pair-wise `diff`s 
+   (both "forwards" and "backwards") to allow transient detections and 
+   magic to happen. Doing a per-night stack for all filters is probably
+   too time-consuming, but might be worth considering for y given that its
+   throughput is the lowest and it's observed closest to the sun, and
+   with the largest separation in time between every year's 2 visits to the
+   same part of the sky.
 
  * Would it be feasible (space- and processing time-wise) to drop the