Index: trunk/ippconfig/gpc1/psastro.config
===================================================================
--- trunk/ippconfig/gpc1/psastro.config	(revision 34511)
+++ trunk/ippconfig/gpc1/psastro.config	(revision 34512)
@@ -408,9 +408,11 @@
    PSASTRO.GRID.NRAW.MAX                S32     2000
    PSASTRO.GRID.NREF.MAX  		S32     2000
-   PSASTRO.MIN.INST.MAG.RAW             F32     -20.0
-   PSASTRO.MAX.INST.MAG.RAW             F32     -15.0
-   PSASTRO.GRID.MIN.INST.MAG.RAW        F32     -20.0
+   PSASTRO.MIN.INST.MAG.RAW             F32     -19.0
+   PSASTRO.MAX.INST.MAG.RAW             F32     -14.0
+   PSASTRO.GRID.MIN.INST.MAG.RAW        F32     -19.0
    PSASTRO.GRID.MAX.INST.MAG.RAW        F32     -15.0
-   DVO.GETSTAR.MIN.MAG.INST             F32     -13.0
-END
-
+   DVO.GETSTAR.MIN.MAG.INST             F32     -19.0
+   DVO.GETSTAR.MIN.MAG			F32	16.0
+
+END
+
Index: trunk/ippconfig/recipes/psphot.config
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--- trunk/ippconfig/recipes/psphot.config	(revision 34511)
+++ trunk/ippconfig/recipes/psphot.config	(revision 34512)
@@ -289,5 +289,6 @@
 # psphotFitSourcesLinear has 3 options for the weighting: CONSTANT,
 # IMAGE_VAR, MODEL_VAR the first of these used to be folded into the
-# boolean CONSTANT_PHOTOMETRIC_WEIGHTS above.
+# boolean CONSTANT_PHOTOMETRIC_WEIGHTS above (so if _MODE set, then
+# it overrides).
 LINEAR_FIT_VARIANCE_MODE	    STR  CONSTANT
 
@@ -525,7 +526,13 @@
 
 STACKPHOT_SINGLE    METADATA
-  PSPHOT.STACK.USE.RAW                BOOL  F   # since false perform photometry & morphology analysis on the convolved images
+  # while not used by psphot directly, staticsky.pl uses to decide if single filter calls psphot with convolved or unconvolved/raw input. 
+  PSPHOT.STACK.USE.RAW                BOOL  T   # if false perform photometry & morphology analysis on the convolved images
+  # NOTE: if PSPHOT.STACK.USE.RAW is set to False, KRON.SMOOTH should be
+  #   set to false as well in order to get the best MOMENTS_R1 measurement.
+  KRON_SMOOTH                         BOOL  T    # smooth before kron radius measurement
+  # default is T and won't work here 
   SAVE.BACKMDL                        BOOL  F
 END
+
 
 # Recipe overrides for CHIP