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Nick James
ParticipantThis comet is now quite a nice target for small, widefield instruments. I imaged it with a 90mm refractor last night.
18 April 2021 at 11:07 pm in reply to: Introducing MetroPSF – a program for ensemble photometry #584105Nick James
ParticipantThere is an old discussion on calculating SNR here. Basically I ended up calculating all of the non-photon sources directly by measuring the RMS value in the sky estimation. To calculate the photon, sqrt(N), noise you need to know the camera gain. I’ve implemented this in an automated aperture photometry tool that I use and it seems reasonable to me.
15 April 2021 at 11:28 pm in reply to: Introducing MetroPSF – a program for ensemble photometry #584098Nick James
ParticipantThanks. That works very well. I get a pretty good ensemble fit against Gaia G and a magnitude for SN 2021hpr of 14.21. This compares to 14.29 using my aperture photometry tool, presumably affected by the galaxy background. I think the SNR you quote is too low though. I get 168, you have 27. SNR is a difficult thing to calculate correctly. How do you do it?
14 April 2021 at 6:33 pm in reply to: Introducing MetroPSF – a program for ensemble photometry #584095Nick James
ParticipantAttached. It is a gzipped FITS.
14 April 2021 at 7:59 am in reply to: Introducing MetroPSF – a program for ensemble photometry #584093Nick James
ParticipantMaxim – Thanks, I’m almost there. I had forgotten the “Get comparison stars” step! Now I get a fit. The only problem remaining is when I click on the object the flux/magnitude etc are all zero. What am I doing wrong?
One other question – Am I right that the ensemble fit graph is upside down, i.e. the brightest magnitudes are in the lower left corner. Not a problem but I would just like to understand.
12 April 2021 at 7:22 am in reply to: Introducing MetroPSF – a program for ensemble photometry #584088Nick James
ParticipantThanks. I get an error “630 match_mag” when computing the regression model. now.
10 April 2021 at 8:25 pm in reply to: Introducing MetroPSF – a program for ensemble photometry #584082Nick James
ParticipantMichael – Yes, it seems to work fine without the astrometry.net key although my files are already platesolved. Here’s an example of the V1391 Cas field with the fit using V.
Maxim – Could you add Gaia DR2 G to your list of catalogues? Also, the image contrast stretch doesn’t seem to work very well for me.
10 April 2021 at 6:56 am in reply to: Introducing MetroPSF – a program for ensemble photometry #584077Nick James
ParticipantMaxim – Thanks that works fine, see attachment. I’ll have a look through your documentation later and will do some experiments on known fields.
9 April 2021 at 10:09 pm in reply to: Introducing MetroPSF – a program for ensemble photometry #584073Nick James
ParticipantI’ve just converted the FITS that I was using from int16 to float32 and it now works. I have an image. I’ll play around a bit more.
9 April 2021 at 10:06 pm in reply to: Introducing MetroPSF – a program for ensemble photometry #584072Nick James
ParticipantYes, I get the same on Win 10. FITS data but no image. See the attached screenshot. FITS file is attached. Note that it is a gzip compressed fits but I can only attach files with an extension .fits so you may need to change that to fit.gz to get it to work.
9 April 2021 at 9:57 pm in reply to: Introducing MetroPSF – a program for ensemble photometry #584071Nick James
ParticipantI get the same problem trying to install 3.9.4 direct from the Python website into a fresh Win 10 20H2 instance in a VM. Trying to run pip from Powershell gives a “command not recognised” error. Installing from the MS Store worked. The rest of the install then ran smoothly although it did moan about ‘wheel’ not being installed as per the attached screenshot and has various warnings (see screenshot). I’m assuming these are benign. I’ll try out the program now.
Nick James
ParticipantYes, I get 13.8 unfiltered ref Gaia DR2 G tonight. Image here.
Nick James
ParticipantCBET 4945 designates this nova as V1405 Cas. My image of it and M52 which is a degree to the north is here.
Nick James
ParticipantYes, and I can see it just below M52. I’m not sure about making a magnitude estimate though!
Nick James
ParticipantThe astrometry I get using Gaia DR2 is 23:24:47.70 +61:11:14.8 with a very high SNR and 1.29 arcsec/pix sampling. There are four stars within 5″ in Gaia DR3. The closest to that position is 15.36G offset by 0″.47 in RA, 0″.04 in Dec.
Nick James
ParticipantAttached stack of 11x1s shows it around 7.6 unfiltered (Gaia G reference) just now (Mar 19.80).
Nick James
ParticipantJust edited the link so that it works.
Nick James
ParticipantAnd 14.89 just now (March 11.84) in a howling gale.
Nick James
ParticipantMy latest observation was on March 9.8 when it was 15.39 (ref Gaia G). My data is in the VSS database.
Nick James
ParticipantThe nova has been steadily brightening for a few weeks and tonight I get it at 17.42. At this rate it will be brighter than the close star just to the north in a few days. An interesting object to follow just as Cassiopeia is getting low in the north. How bright will it get?
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