UPDATE FROM MABULA
I have had a very rough 2 months unfortunately health wise. I was struck 3x in a row with bacterial infections. The second infection occurred after a routine hospital checkup and I became very sick. I had to rest and take a lot of antibiotics. Once I was recovering and restarting work 1 month ago, I again became sick. The infection was not yet gone, so even more antibiotics and rest was needed. Needless to say, it took a lot of my energy and I needed a lot of rest.
Finally, the infection is really gone and my energy is coming back step-by-step now and I have started work again. I am terribly sorry to have kept you waiting for support. I will address all outstanding questions and e-mails step-by step and will be on the forum daily from today.
APP 2.0.0-beta47 will come soon as well, a lot of work was already completed before I became very ill, so the release is also nearly ready for you. Beta47 will be much faster actually. Many workflows will be more than 2x faster, mosaics can even be 10x faster than before because registration really received a major boost... all compared to beta46. Before I release it, I will make sure that everything is working properly and then I will release it.
I took Darks, Flats, DarkFlats and Bias frames yesterday, and loaded them up and ran calibration against them, following the workflow in the videos here. Darks, DarkFlat and Bias all resulted in Masters that looked as one would expect, a smoothed version of the subs.
However, the Master Flat was basically black, even with various stretching in APP or other viewers. I redid all the flat subs again tonight, very carefully (wizard in Nina). They all look as one would expect, dull grey with some vignetting at the corners. Calibrated in APP, and the result is all black again! Hovering over the image in the viewer, appears RGB values are all 01638.
Any ideas?? Thanks!
-David
From the screenshot I can see you took the flats at 0.15 seconds, at least that is something you want to bring up to 1-2 seconds. How does a single flat look like and what are your gain and offset values?
I did find my problem, I accidentally created my DarkFlats with the same pictures... hence when calibrated they normalized to nothing!
Excellent, that is good to know! 🙂
