| | 130 | To test the problems with the stack, Peter Draper and I have repeated the stacking of MD08 r-band skycell 041 using STARLINK software. This stack has 25 input warps - unfortunately for some unknown reason two were missing from Durham's data bundle, so we have only been able to stack 23. Shown below, for left to right, are crops from: the original IPP stack (seeing 2.0" FWHM); a STARLINK median clipped stack where the warps have been smoothed with a Gaussian to 2.0" seeing before stacking; a STARLINK median clipped stack where image has only been smoothed ''after'' stacking to 2.0" with a Gaussian; the STARLINK median stack with no smoothing at all (seeing about 1.35"). All images are shown with the same intensity scale. |