2023-02-17, 01:16 AM
Hello,
Thanks for sharing your imaging system. I stepped through the code and found that the calculation for effective resolution looks at the telescope optics, the seeing, and the resolution of the camera. It picks the highest of these values as the resolution limit. For reasons that I will need to spend some time looking into I introduced a factor of 3 during testing, which seemed to best reproduce the results. For the time being, just think of the effective resolution as a sort of practical limit rather than a theoretical one. In the end, its only the relative values that are all that informative, e.g. how does the seeing change it, how does it differ between ystems, etc.
I am currently having a nice chat with ChatGPT about this topic to make sure that I have all the based covered correctly, as the effective resolution isn't a common calculation. Most people just cite the pixel scale.
Thanks for sharing your imaging system. I stepped through the code and found that the calculation for effective resolution looks at the telescope optics, the seeing, and the resolution of the camera. It picks the highest of these values as the resolution limit. For reasons that I will need to spend some time looking into I introduced a factor of 3 during testing, which seemed to best reproduce the results. For the time being, just think of the effective resolution as a sort of practical limit rather than a theoretical one. In the end, its only the relative values that are all that informative, e.g. how does the seeing change it, how does it differ between ystems, etc.
I am currently having a nice chat with ChatGPT about this topic to make sure that I have all the based covered correctly, as the effective resolution isn't a common calculation. Most people just cite the pixel scale.
Clear skies,
Greg
Head Dude at Skyhound
Greg
Head Dude at Skyhound