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Stacking of images, but only the ones that have been successfully aligned internally

The method used to align two images is based on normalized cross-correlation, and is a widely used method in many disciplines, including astronomy (please see the article ``Proceedings of the SPIE, Advanced Signal Processing Algorithms, Architectures, and Implementations XV1, Vol. 6313, pp. D1-D13, San Diego, CA, Aug. 2006.) It should be noted that this functionality is new in Version 2, and since only a limited amount of testing has been done it should be used with caution. The correlation images should be examined to check that there is a good peak and the computed offsets checked.

The following command-line, ommosaic imagesets=''image1 image2 ...'' mosaicedset=mosaicedimage.fits mincorr=0.5 correlset=correl.fits attempts to align the images image1, image2, stacks the images that have been successfully aligned (ie those with a computed correlation coefficent of at least equal to 0.5, stores the stacked image in the file mosaicedimage.fits and the correlation images in the file correl.fits.


Stacking of images without Usage Stacking of images with Home Index

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