Stars’ Centroid Determination Using PSF-Fitting Method

This paper presents an algorithm for restoring telescope images corrupted by turbulence effects and readout noise of a telescope system in order to determine centroid positions of stars, especially the position of a reference star. A computation method employing an accurate centroid estimation algor...

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Main Authors: Suszyński Robert, Wawryn Krzysztof
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Polish Academy of Sciences 2015-12-01
Series:Metrology and Measurement Systems
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description This paper presents an algorithm for restoring telescope images corrupted by turbulence effects and readout noise of a telescope system in order to determine centroid positions of stars, especially the position of a reference star. A computation method employing an accurate centroid estimation algorithm reconstructing a point spread function (PSF) from the recorded astronomical images has been used. Minimisation of turbulence effects and telescope control system noise in long exposure images acquired and recorded by the ground telescope is proposed. As a solution of the distortion error a minimisation signal is dedicated to GoTo calibration procedures built in control mechanisms of the electromechanical telescope system. The proposed method has been verified in the Matlab environment for real deep sky images recorded by the ground telescope system.
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spelling doaj.art-792eb3ab241e41019835a4f56ca6d4402022-12-21T21:46:59ZengPolish Academy of SciencesMetrology and Measurement Systems2300-19412015-12-0122454755810.1515/mms-2015-0047mms-2015-0047Stars’ Centroid Determination Using PSF-Fitting MethodSuszyński Robert0Wawryn Krzysztof1Koszalin University of Technology, Faculty of Electronics and Information Technology, Śniadeckich 2, 75-543 Koszalin, PolandKoszalin University of Technology, Faculty of Electronics and Information Technology, Śniadeckich 2, 75-543 Koszalin, PolandThis paper presents an algorithm for restoring telescope images corrupted by turbulence effects and readout noise of a telescope system in order to determine centroid positions of stars, especially the position of a reference star. A computation method employing an accurate centroid estimation algorithm reconstructing a point spread function (PSF) from the recorded astronomical images has been used. Minimisation of turbulence effects and telescope control system noise in long exposure images acquired and recorded by the ground telescope is proposed. As a solution of the distortion error a minimisation signal is dedicated to GoTo calibration procedures built in control mechanisms of the electromechanical telescope system. The proposed method has been verified in the Matlab environment for real deep sky images recorded by the ground telescope system.http://www.degruyter.com/view/j/mms.2015.22.issue-4/mms-2015-0047/mms-2015-0047.xml?format=INTcentroid estimationPSF-fittingimage processing
spellingShingle Suszyński Robert
Wawryn Krzysztof
Stars’ Centroid Determination Using PSF-Fitting Method
Metrology and Measurement Systems
centroid estimation
PSF-fitting
image processing
title Stars’ Centroid Determination Using PSF-Fitting Method
title_full Stars’ Centroid Determination Using PSF-Fitting Method
title_fullStr Stars’ Centroid Determination Using PSF-Fitting Method
title_full_unstemmed Stars’ Centroid Determination Using PSF-Fitting Method
title_short Stars’ Centroid Determination Using PSF-Fitting Method
title_sort stars centroid determination using psf fitting method
topic centroid estimation
PSF-fitting
image processing
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