Registration is critical for such small point-spread functions to match well. Thereforet he minimum number of contigous pixels above the threshold to be counted as a fiducial source for automatic registration is increased from 9 to 15, and the percentile detection threshold raised from 98% to 99%. These may need further adjustment as a wider selection of observations are processed. The sky co-ordinates are used to aid registration by default.
Aperture photometry accesses both the UKIRT Faint-standard and Persson HST lists.
ORAC-DR -- imaging data reduction