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Illumination Corrected Flat Fields

A third method to account for illumination problems in the flat fields is to remove the large scale pattern from the flat field itself. This is useful if there are no reasonable blank sky calibration frames and the astronomical exposures are evenly illuminated but the flat fields are not. This is done by smoothing the flat field frames instead of blank sky frames. As with using the sky frames there are two methods, creating an illumination correction to be applied as a separate step or fixing the original flat field. The smoothing algorithm is the same as that used in the other illumination commands. The commands to make these types of corrections are ILLCOR/CCD and ILLFLAT/CCD. The usage is virtually identical to the illumination correction commands. Obviously, after having obtained the illumination corrected flat field it is reasonable to replace the original flat fields by the corrected flat fields in the reduction table.



Pascal Ballester
Tue Mar 28 16:52:29 MET DST 1995