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GESD settings clarifications
I think I basically understand what the GESD settings do, and I want to confirm that an approach I want to take would achieve the goal I am after.
I really like that PI integration rejection algorithms, (GESD in particular), will reject the outsides of stars that are bigger because of lower quality seeing conditions and occasional poor guiding.
If I have an imaging run with more frequent poor guiding and seeing than usual, and I have a lot of subs, (500+), then setting the ESD parameters to the more aggressive defaults will help get me the result I want with rejecting more of the outsides of the fatter stars, right?
I assume that any loss of data from more aggressive rejection parameters is probably significantly overcome by the high number of sub exposures?
In fact, I could probably up the significance to .10 (from .05) to get an even better result with rejecting the outsides of fatter stars?
Thanks for any clarifications/affirmations/corrections.
I really like that PI integration rejection algorithms, (GESD in particular), will reject the outsides of stars that are bigger because of lower quality seeing conditions and occasional poor guiding.
If I have an imaging run with more frequent poor guiding and seeing than usual, and I have a lot of subs, (500+), then setting the ESD parameters to the more aggressive defaults will help get me the result I want with rejecting more of the outsides of the fatter stars, right?
I assume that any loss of data from more aggressive rejection parameters is probably significantly overcome by the high number of sub exposures?
In fact, I could probably up the significance to .10 (from .05) to get an even better result with rejecting the outsides of fatter stars?
Thanks for any clarifications/affirmations/corrections.