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Re: PSF Energy inside circle [message #61579 is a reply to message #61578]

Wed, 23 July 2008 11:15

pgrigis
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Registered: September 2007

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Seems like a good situation for fitting a 2d gaussian peak to the
data.... This way you get all the parameters (intensity, FWHM)
directly...

Ciao,
Paolo

Michael Aye wrote:
> Dear all,
> as so often I am either too blind to find existing stuff or puzzled
> (if non-existing), that nobody did before what looks like a very usual
> task.
> What I want to know:
> Where in an image array (usual 2d-array with values, e.g. a CCD image)
> containing a centered 2d-gaussian light pulse lies the circle that
> contains 80 % (for example) of the "energy" of all the light on the
> image? I even only need it for the ideal situation where the center of
> the CCD aligns with the center of the 2d-gaussian light distribution.
> What I did so far:
> - Collected useful procedures like psf_gaussian, dist_circle and
> tvcircle.
> - Found the algorithm how to integrate from the center pixel towards
> outside, summing up the frame of pixels next to the previous frame. So
> my cumulative sum contains the sum of the date of 1, 9, 25 ... pixels.
>
> But I would like to go in circles, not squares! :)
> So how could I find and integrate the next "ring" of pixels? How would
> I even calculate the ever growing circumference correctly, taking into
> account that I have to sum up ever more pixels?
> Sounds like a horrible coding work and I am hoping somebody did all
> that already, because somehow that is something one would need to see
> how good an optical PSF is, or not?
>
> As usual, I am grateful for any help or hint to literature, procedures
> or calibration data of other experiments that might have done the
> same.
> Best regards,
> Michael

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		Re: PSF Energy inside circle By: wlandsman on Wed, 23 July 2008 13:52
		Re: PSF Energy inside circle By: pgrigis on Wed, 23 July 2008 13:24
		Re: PSF Energy inside circle By: Kenneth P. Bowman on Wed, 23 July 2008 12:17
		Re: PSF Energy inside circle By: pgrigis on Wed, 23 July 2008 11:15
		Re: PSF Energy inside circle By: Bob[3] on Thu, 24 July 2008 05:43
		Re: PSF Energy inside circle By: Kenneth P. Bowman on Fri, 25 July 2008 10:18
		Re: PSF Energy inside circle By: Bob[3] on Tue, 29 July 2008 08:38
		Re: PSF Energy inside circle By: maye on Wed, 30 July 2008 15:06

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