Extending mainpage example

they might be saturated, and daofind is clever to threat saturated ones
differently? I'll check it once I finish with the other comments.


On 8 July 2014 21:57, Christoph Deil <notifications@github.com> wrote:

> In docs/photutils/index.rst:
>
> >
> >    >>> import numpy as np
> > +  >>> from photutils import datasets
> > +  >>> hdu = datasets.load_star_image()   # doctest: +REMOTE_DATA
> > +  >>> image = hdu.data[500:700, 500:700]   # doctest: +REMOTE_DATA
> > +
> > +`photutils` supports different source detection algorithms, this example
> > +uses `~photutils.daofind`. The threshold is set to be the 3-sigma below the
> > +median background level:
>
> Yes ... very bright isolated stars are missing, so there must be other
> selections applied by doafind than the simple thresholding ... maybe
> @larrybradley <https://github.com/larrybradley> can comment or you can
> switch to irafstarfind if that behaves as expected?
> (I'll start playing with the detection methods a bit now to try to
> understand what is going on.)
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