Photometry Graph Tab

When you select the Graph Tab the window will automatically resize, since usually you need more room for the graph (the Graph tab and the other tabs are resizable by dragging the edge or the corners with the mouse).

Once the analysis is complete A graph will be displayed showing the light curves of the tagged objects. Each object will have a separate curve with different markers or colors.

You can adjust various graph settings as follows:

You can also easily inspect the image for each data point by clicking on it. The image will be selected in the tree view, and the image will be displayed.  If you decide that an image is of poor quality you can remove it from the graph by unchecking the image in the tree view. You can check or uncheck multiple images by selecting them using SHIFT or CTRL click and using the right-click menu.

 

Data Export and Printing

The Options menu at the bottom of the graph allows you to export and print measurements.

CSV Export Options controls what data is saved to CSV files. CSV exports are fully configurable, and can include both photometry measurement data and other general-purpose measurements. The available options are:

Note:  "Aperture" means as measured within the aperture defined by the graphical tag on the image. "Annulus" means as measured within the annulus defined by the graphical tag on the image.  "Centroid" means the aperture was adjusted to be precisely centered on the centroid of the star prior to making the measurement.

The Save CSV and Save AAVSO items allow you to save photometry measurements to disk. You can browse to the desired folder and enter a File name. You can select Save as type to either Comma Separated Values (*.csv) or AAVSO Format (*.txt). If AAVSO is selected, then additional fields are enabled: Observer Code, Chart ID, and Group. Please consult with AAVSO documentation on how to set these fields. In CSV mode, if you have imported previously analyzed data you have the option to include that in your output.  For both formats you can also control the Precision of the exported data.

The Print menu item brings up the standard Windows print dialog box.  This allows you to print the graph.