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[FEATURE] Carefully decide what images get used for WINTER flats #619

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virajkaram opened this issue Aug 16, 2023 · 1 comment
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enhancement New feature or request WINTER Project-specific issues relating to WINTER/Summer winterready needed by WINTER comissioning

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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
WINTER flat-fielding happens with images that don't necessarily have a large numbers of counts. Looks like the dark counts vary on a level of few hundreds. If the sky counts in the flats are ~2000, this means that our winter frames would never be calibrated better than 10% (min. uncertainty is 0.1 mag, before including any other effects). This is very suboptimal.

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We should set a threshold on the median number of counts in an image that should be used for flat-fielding, to improve the quality of reductions. This would probably translate to only using frames taken earlier during the evening. On an astro-note, we should probably be taking twilight flats.

@virajkaram virajkaram added the enhancement New feature or request label Aug 16, 2023
@virajkaram virajkaram changed the title [FEATURE] Carefully decide what flat images get used for WINTER [FEATURE] Carefully decide what images get used for WINTER flats Aug 16, 2023
@virajkaram virajkaram added WINTER Project-specific issues relating to WINTER/Summer winterready needed by WINTER comissioning labels Aug 16, 2023
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I think this has been somewhat superseded by dome flats. See #835 instead.

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