In my last post on my PSF Project I characterized the PSF shape by fitting a 1-D Gaussian to the a row and column slice through the central pixel. In this post I start to think about how to characterize entire images with thousands of stars.
Many ...
I've started a new project working with 10 million stellar PSFs. In my first few steps in the project I performed some model fitting and made a pretty visualization of the individual data points.
I am starting a new project that I'm ...
A few weeks ago I was awarded an research grant to continue working on a prototype software pipeline for HST moving target (solar system) observations. The grant came from an internal source called the Director's Discretionary Research Fund (DDRF). My project, called the Moving Target Pipeline, was fully funded ...
the trouble with poetry is
that it encourages the writing of more poetry
- Billy Collins, The Trouble with Poetry
To paraphrase one of my favorite poets, the trouble with tech blogs is that they encourage the writing of more tech blogs. The Internet probably doesn't need another tech blog ...