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To solve it, we develop an algorithm that automatically computes a registration correction consisting of a motion (translation plus rotation) and a radial distortion. The correction parameters are retrieved for every image by means of a regularised non-linear optimisation process, in which the spatial distances between the theoretical and actual locations of chosen features are minimised. The actual features are found along the coastlines automatically by using computer vision techniques. The retrieved correction parameters show a behaviour that is related to the period of DSCOVR orbiting around the Lagrangian point L     1    . 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