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Suggestion from Mansi - Use the Sextractor catalogs to identify images with no stars in them and throw them away. Will be useful to diagnose failures due to clouds/mirror-cover/dome issues. Will take some experimentation to figure out what flags and parameters to use to select real stars from the Sextractor catalog without being too strict.
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This is definitely not straightforward. I am pretty sure we already have a check for "not enough stars", or at least did for autoastrometry. These darks currently have ~500 stars recovered though, presumably due to non-linearity, so the cuts would need to be extremely aggressive.
We do not run autoastrometry for WINTER. For astrometry.net, the sextractor thresholds are deliberately set to low values, and have very minimal quality cuts, because anet does a good job of figuring out which stars are real and use them for solving astrometry, and can use low S/N stars to build some confidence in the solution. The detected "stars" in the darks are due to hot-pixels and masking-edge effects, which could be filtered out using FWHM, SNR and FLAGS parameters in the catalogs.
However, I am apprehensive about how useful this will be. I would mark this as wishlist, #878 will definitely give the most effective filtering check and should take priority.
Suggestion from Mansi - Use the Sextractor catalogs to identify images with no stars in them and throw them away. Will be useful to diagnose failures due to clouds/mirror-cover/dome issues. Will take some experimentation to figure out what flags and parameters to use to select real stars from the Sextractor catalog without being too strict.
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