Recognition and Analysis of Thin Clouds in Optical Astronomical Images of Large Field-of-View Ground-Based Telescope Based on Fuzzy Clustering

Xiaolong Li; Hongbo Cai; Huali Li; Jianyan Wei

doi:10.3788/LOP202259.1610010

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