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Centroiding doesn't work very well on faint, highly variable targets.

See original GitHub issue

The current implementation of centroids can fail really weirdly with some faint targets that are highly variable. In this case, it may be because the tpf background is actually negative.

We should be using @mirca’s muchbettermoments: https://github.com/mirca/muchbettermoments

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Created 4 years ago
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barentsencommented, Jul 1, 2019

Excellent find, thank you @christinahedges!

And thank you @mirca for solving problems before they appear!

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mircacommented, Oct 17, 2019

wow, thanks for showing this comparison!

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