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<h2>Thumbnails</h2>
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<img src="/webdings/help/thumbinfo.png" style="margin: 15px; width: 700px; max-width: 35vw" />
<div style="font-style: italic; text-align: center; font-size: 10pt; margin-bottom: 10px; max-width: 35vw;">Two example plots. The left plot shows a poor session, with cloud cover and overexpsure, while the right plot shows a good session with a mostly-clear sky.</div>
<img src="/webdings/help/thumbnail.png" style="margin: 15px; width: 700px; max-width: 35vw" />
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Four example plots. The left two plots show a low visibility session, with cloud coverage
and overexposure, while the right two plots show a high visibility seassion with a mostly-clear sky.
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Folders containing nightly FITS files are summarized by a thumbnail.
This allows for at-a-glance evaluation of a session's quality.
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The thumbnails are radial plots, where <b>r</b> represents the "visibility" and the angle represents the hour of the night.
The visibility <b>v</b> is computed as the average intensity <b>I</b> in the center of every frame, subtracted from the maximum possible intensity:
The thumbnails are radial plots, where <b>r</b> for the green/left plot represents the "visibility,"and <b>r</b>
for the orange/right plot represents the exposure time, and the angle represents the hour of the night.
The visibility <b>v</b> is computed as the average intensity <b>I</b> in the center of every frame,
subtracted from the maximum possible intensity:
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<b>v = 65535 - I</b>
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<p>Low visibility may indicate the presence of clouds, moonlight, or overexposure.</p>
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The exposure is the exposure length at a given time with the edge being the maximum exposure
time for each night. This means that the each exposure graph is scaled differently. The longer
for a night, the less images taken.
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We also added a moon visualizaiton along with the name of the moon on that night.
An important note is that the moon illumination will have an effect on exposure time.
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Low visibility and/or low exposure may indicate the presence of clouds, moonlight, or overexposure.
A way to identify a low visibility session is to look at the exposure graph during variable
exposure (which we currently use, before around June 2019, fixed exposure was used. Look at the brightness graph for clarity indication).
High variance in exposure typically implies low visibility, but constant
high exposure often means high visibility
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