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18 AUTOSTAR CCD PHOTOMETRY
3.2 Calibrating the Images
1. Click on one of the image files in the new folder. The AutoStar
Image Processing program will open the file.
2. Close the file, but not the image processing program.
To make working on similar files (taken with the same filter)
easier, a Group can be created that will have all of the calibration
steps done on the members of the Group automatically.
3. Click on the Group pull-down menu and select New. (See Fig.
3-1.)
Figure 3-1. Selecting a New Group of Images.
Note: The Photometry selection in this window is a bit
misleading. It's designed to automate time-series projects where
you may have hundreds of images taken in each filter. For starting
out, this can cause more problems than it solves. Ignore it for now.
Also, you may ignore the rest of the items from this pull-down
menu, as they mainly apply to astro imaging and not photometry.