No photometry stars in NSG

Processing Photometry Deep Sky Help Needed
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Christian Bennich avatar
Christian Bennich avatar
Hi all

Does anyone have any pointers in regards to the warning: “No photometry stars found”
Never seen it before, and comparing frames I don’t see any apparent differences on the frames. 

Thank you.
Christian Bennich avatar
Christian Bennich avatar
I posted my question over here as well : https://www.backyardastro.org/topic/3977-normalizescalegradient-script/page/13/#findComment-35359 . I'm hoping that John can help.

I will update this thread as well.
andrea tasselli avatar
andrea tasselli avatar
Bit more details of the where's and how's would help immensely. As a hint: it does happen in areas poorly covered by photometric surveys, typically far galactic N pole.
Christian Bennich avatar
Christian Bennich avatar
It turned out that I had missed a couple of bad frames, which messed up the photometry in NSG. 
Human error (read….my own fault :happy-1smile
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