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Hi,
I installed 1.076 Beta 3 this am. Nice speed improvements!
When I try to integrate my calibrated lights, everything works up to the Integrate step, but it just skips and the slider near the top says:
lights to stack 100% 0 of 72
The slider is full right and 72 lights are loaded, Analysed, Registered, and Normalized.
Here's a look at the screen:
Followed my normal flow:
1) Load flats from last night plus master dark, darkflat, and bias.
2) Created master flats
3) Loaded lights (one filter only - H)
4) Saved calibrated light frames
5) Started Integration which automatically started Analyse, Register and Normalize.
6) Everything worked except the last step - Integrate - which did not run
Thanks,
Rowland
That is an interesting one, I'll forward it to Mabula. I guess it's either a bug or something in your settings. Thanks for letting us know! One question; why are you saving the calibrated frames in between, does it work when you just skip that and go for integration straight away? Does it work when you save your frames at the normalization step instead of the calibration step?
Hi Vincent,
I save the calibrated frames because I am imaging over multiple nights and my workflow is to calibrate and save the calibrated frames each morning, since that requires loading the session-specific calibration frames. Then when I've collected all the data I load the calibrated frames and do the remaining steps.
I reverted to the previous release so I could get things working, so at the moment I am not able to test it with saving the normalized frames.
Cheers,
Rowland
Ok, thanks for clarifying, I'll get back to this as soons as I got a hold of Mabula.
Hi Rowland @rowland-f-archer-jr,
I will check if I can duplicate your issue, is there any change that you can upload either the calibrated frames or some lights with the masters? Then I can duplicate the problem quickly and fix it 😉
Please upload the data directly to our server:
https://ariesprodstor.astropixelprocessor.com:7001/
username & password: appuser
Make a folder with your name and let me know once uploaded 😉
Kind regards,
Mabula
Hi,
I installed 1.076 Beta 3 this am. Nice speed improvements!
When I try to integrate my calibrated lights, everything works up to the Integrate step, but it just skips and the slider near the top says:
lights to stack 100% 0 of 72
The slider is full right and 72 lights are loaded, Analysed, Registered, and Normalized.
Here's a look at the screen:
Followed my normal flow:
1) Load flats from last night plus master dark, darkflat, and bias.
2) Created master flats
3) Loaded lights (one filter only - H)
4) Saved calibrated light frames
5) Started Integration which automatically started Analyse, Register and Normalize.
6) Everything worked except the last step - Integrate - which did not run
Thanks,
Rowland
Dear Rowland @rowland-f-archer-jr,
Thanks for uploading your data, it is different data than on which you post the problem and I am not able to duplicate the issue I am afraid.
You uploaded lights with filter B and they process fine, also on the calibrated saved frames, also when forced with a filter H as shown in your screenshot:
Maybe it will help if you upload the data (SH2-240 H filter) on which you get the issue? Or do you get it on this dataset as well, NGC_1333 B filter ?
Kind regards,
Mabula
It will also be very helpfull if you can show exactly the output in the console panel after normalization finishes and integration would need to start, thus where it stops in your case 😉
Thanks,
Mabula
Hi Mabula -
It's still uploading - actually there are errors with the upload so not sure what happened.
I was going to give you instructions after the upload finished.
With this data set, it integrated the L frames but didn't integrate the R, G or B's. (it said 17 of 41 integrated even though I had the slider set to 100%).
I tried the data set with H frames yesterday but using pre-built Master Flats and it integrated all 41 frames, so I decided to use this data set that showed the problem. I don't know if all the steps are needed, but the problem has occurred when I follow this flow.
1) Load master dark, dark flat and BPM
2) Load flats, create flat masters
3) Load lights, save calibrated frames
4) Integrate
The problem did not happen when I just loaded calibration masters, lights, and then integrated.
I'll try to finish the upload of the data set that failed today (LRGB) and later today I will re-try the H only data set including building flat masters and see if that fails.
Thanks,
Rowland
Hi Rowland @rowland-f-archer-jr,
Good news, I was studying my code and I have already located the issue now, it will occur if you use filter assignments/names of only 1 letter and if you have more than 1 filter assignment in APP's memory. I can duplicate the issue now:
For instance, if you have an R and B filter assignment, things will not work well. I am fixing this now to make this 100% reliable 😉
Thanks for bringing this to my attention 😉 Rowland.
Mabula
Great! Glad you found it and will integrate one filter at a time for now.
Cheers,
Rowland
Great! Glad you found it and will integrate one filter at a time for now.
Cheers,
Rowland
The issue has been fixed and it works 100% robust now. Thank you for reporting the issue 😉
Next beta with the fix will soon be released.
Mabula
Hi Rowland @rowland-f-archer-jr,
Can you try the APP 1.076 beta 4 release and let me know if all is okay now?
https://www.astropixelprocessor.com/community/appreleases/downloads/
Cheers,
Mabula
Hi Mabula,
Looks good, all four channels were integrated successfully.
Thanks!
Rowland
Hi Mabula,
Looks good, all four channels were integrated successfully.
Thanks!
Rowland
Excellent Rowland 😉 @rowland-f-archer-jr
Thank you for your feedback,
Mabula