7.6.4 OCENTER


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7.6.4 OCENTER

OCENTER will obtain the center of the Sun from a optical full frame image. It makes a ``silhouette image'' consisting of 1's and 0's, then calculates the centroid to determine and . The area is used to determine the image radius. The input image can be compressed or decompressed, and in any summation mode. The output is in SXT full resolution pixels unless /noscale is set.
IDL> ocenter, image, x, y, radius
 
IDL> ocenter, image, x, y, radius, /noscale, cut=0.3
where image is the 2-D input image, and x and y are the E/W and N/S position of the sun. radius is the solar radius in pixels and cut is the fraction of image maximum to define the limb (default is 0.2)


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