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sky file [box=]
DESCRIPTION
This routine computes the "sky" level under the assumption that sky is simply the most common pixel intensity (i.e. the mode). The routine calculates the histogram of the source_file in the command line determines the adu value at which the histogram is a maximum (the mode). No interpolation or fitting is done to determine a maximum than the nearest integer value. It prints out a line like.
sky=122.0
Louis-Gregory Strolger
2012-01-09