FitHist:

Path: SpacecraftEstimation/StarProcessing

% Calculate a histogram  of the pixels and fit a Gaussian to the mode.
 This approximates the sky background. Typically this should exit in 
 2-3 iterations.

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   Form:
   [b,R,iter] = FitHist( pixels )
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   Inputs
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   pixels (:,:) Pixels

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   Outputs
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   b     (2,1) Noise center
   R     (1,1) Standard deviation
   iter  (1,1) Number of iterations in the Newton-Gauss method

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   See also
   Jacobian, histcounts
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