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 | The merged image, even when a gamma 2 is applied, is uninspiring. The details are invisible.
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| An intensity plot of this image shows the high intensity spike, and the hints of low amplitude information. This is the central 64x64 pixel region.
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| A cross section plot shows the height of this point spread function. This is in digital counts at the scale of the base exposure (30 seconds). Note the scale, 10^8.
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| We can see the detail better by taking the log of the image. Here you can see the influence of diffraction lines (the small spikes on either side) and the flare induced by the optics (the broad skirt). In the image we can see two nearby stars within the flare.
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| If we zoom way down in intensity and show the bottom 1%, we see an intensity distribution like this. The plot also reveals some "holes" that were missed in the summation of exposures within the bright central region of the star.
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