For all 2603 frames of real data and 2000 frames of simulated: -------------------------------------------------------------- 1) FITTED SPOTS ONLY; AVERAGE OF VALID OFFSETS SUBTRACTED In each frame, the average offset in x and y of all fitted spots on a frame are subtracted from each spot offset (no filtering). Only the fitted spots are used to compute the mean ellipticity DATA (dashed_line) ----------------------- e=0.225021 SIMULATIONS (solid_line) ----------------------- e=0.19844 low=96 m high=17cm E_Histogram_No_Text_5-All_Nights-2005__fitted_only_avg_sub_low_96.71_high_0.0174.png 2) FITTED SPOTS ONLY; KX=0,KY=0 REMOVED The FFT of the frame is taken, the kx=0, ky=0 bin is set to zero (no filtering besides this), and the inverse is computed to get the offsets back. Only the offsets of the spots that were nonzero before the filtering occured are used in each frame to caclulate the ellipticity. SIMULATIONS (solid_line) ----------------------- e=0.226877 low=96 m high=17cm E_Histogram_No_Text_5-All_Nights-2005__fitted_only_kx0_ky0_sub_low_96.71_high_0.0174.png DATA (dashed_line) ----------------------- e=0.241583