Am still experiencing many HFR mis-reads cause of this hot column. Will post tonight's data, and the graphs I am getting, cause they look nothing like what you've simulated there. Could the simulations differ from real world results?
My attention has also been brought to something that's been happening on and off at least since July/August 2016. Every now and then I will look at the focus module and the minimum star size has changed from 10 pixels to 4 pixels!! Even though my equip profile says 10 and the sequence starts out with 10... And I continually set this back to 10!
It's random. I haven't seen it in a while, but tonight I am resuming my sequence from last night, and SGP keeps changing the "Minimum star Size at 1x1 (px)" back to 4 pixels.... And it picks up the hot column very easily.
Just to confirm this, I checked the current running sgp log and sure enough, the routines were run with (from log) "Star detection using min star size of 2px...". (FWIW the max was 40px)
What is changing my AF parameters on me?
Also, here is what I see my graphs from the night above as. Note Pack 14's spike:
Pack 12
Pack 13
Pack 14
Pack 15