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Option to disable centroiding in Simple Aperture Photometry #1442

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Reporter: Pey-Lian Lim

This is a follow up of discussions at #1409 (review) .

Pros:

  • I'm generally a fan of providing additional functionality regardless of whether we can or cannot think of a good reason. It allows our tools to be more responsive to usecases we can't think of that are outside of our perspective; though I can understand the UI concerns, though I feel like a small crosshair icon (like for "aim assist" in FPS games) wouldn't be too obstructive in this case
  • allowing increased flexibility. I can imagine a case where you intentionally (maybe with the API) set the position of the subset to be off-centroid and want to see the profile as-is... although that may not be all that common. (My example was blended sources or background contamination that move the technical centroid away from the location you want).
  • self-documents the behavior. The presence of a switch and its descriptive text also tells the user that this re-centroiding will happen by default, without having to dig into the documentation. And I think it does so more effectively than a text blurb.

Cons:

  • UI is already very crowded.
  • User should not be using this for crowded field photometry. This is supposed to be simple quick look.
  • No one even asked for it yet.

For: @duytnguyendtn @kecnry

Against: @pllim @larrybradley

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