Hi,<br><br><p>In this week, I finish the implementation of star brightness
measurement. First, I complete the calculation for background sky
brightness. To avoid the distraction of the light from other stars in
the background, I sort the pixel value of within the outer radius and
keep the middle 80% of them. Then the average background brightness is
subtracted from the brightness of the aperture to get final star
brightness. Also I add the function to modify the center of the star
when the user selects a star. If the user has not clicked on the star
center precisely, the neighborhood of the star will be checked and we
assume the center to be the pixel with the highest value.</p>I modify the interface that computes both single star brightness and
relative brightness of two stars. The user can select the mode between
single star mode and two star’s mode. If the latter mode is selected,
the user can choose the first star or the second star. After that, the
user can select the star in the image and aperture and outer radius will
be shown automatically. The user can also modify the aperture and outer
radius of the star. Then by clicking “Compute” button, the brightness
of the single star or the relative brightness can be calculated and
displayed.<br><br>Detailed report can be found here: <a href="http://opticks.org/confluence/display/~yiwei/Status+Report+for+Week+11%2C+GSoC+2011">http://opticks.org/confluence/display/~yiwei/Status+Report+for+Week+11%2C+GSoC+2011</a><br>
<br>Next week I will begin to implement the astronomical image registration.<br>