[Issues] Poor astrometry on SUBARU test field
Tim Schrabback
schrabback at strw.leidenuniv.nl
Wed Aug 20 16:47:38 CEST 2008
Dear John and Erik,
during the Leiden tutorial I randomly picked a multi-color SUBARU data set
to work with. The results for the astrometry (Astrom) were poor, with
an RMS exceeding 1" for some chips/exposures. Looking at the frames they
visually look fine. I think it would be very valuable to understand the
cause for such poor results in order to further improve the Astro-WISE
system.
If you want to check this yourself, this is how I ran the astrometry
task:
pars=Pars(AstrometricParameters)
pars.AstrometricParameters.process_params.MAX_RMS=1.1
pars.AstrometricParameters.preastromconf.RMS_TOL=5.0
dpu.run('Astrometry', i='SUP', o='deep16_0', C=1,pars=pars.get())
We are currently performing extensive astrometry tests (also using
different reference catalogs) using CFHTLS-Wide MEGACAM data outside of
Astro-WISE. It would be good to get these data fully supported in
Astro-WISE at some point, so we can do cross-checks.
Thanks and best regards,
Tim
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