Hello, all,

This is my first post on this forum. My name is Fran and I usually work in photometry.

I recently migrated from SGPro (Wndows) to Ekos-Kstars (Linux) and I have been impressed for the excellent work it does: it is very fast and reliable, especially with plate solve, guiding.

The only "but" I have is... when you work in photometry, it is crucial not to saturate the star you are observing. In most programs, you can place a window on the star that covers entirely the star's PSF. Then, a complete statistics are shown, including maximum and average (or median) ADU's inside this window.

I see this option is not implement, and I must hoover the mouse in all the star's PSF, pixel by pixel. This is very problematic and unconfortable, because you can miss a pixel, maybe one saturated. Thus, you can have bitter surprises when you process these images and see that the pixel is saturated or out of linearity range.

It is possible to implement such functionality?

Greetings,
Fran

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