mFitplane

montage_wrapper.commands.mFitplane(in_image, border=None, debug_level=None, status_file=None)

Uses least squares to fit a plane (excluding outlier pixels) to an image. It is used on the difference images generated using mDiff or mDiffExec.

Parameters :

in_image : str

Input FITS file is a difference file between two other FITS files, as can be generated using mDiff.

border : int, optional

Number of border pixels to ignore at edges of image.

debug_level : int, optional

Turns on debugging to the specified level (1-3).

status_file : str, optional

Output and errors are written to status_file instead of stdout.