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'm new to APP so please excuse the very basic question.
Having loaded the light frames, dark master, bias master and flat master and going to the calibration tab apart from assigning the masters to the lights do I need to click any other buttons, apart from options like hot pixel correction, to move to the next stage. I don't see a button, unless I missed it- that says calibrate. I'm hoping that calibrate just happens having assigned the correct masters when moving to the next stage of the processing.
Please confirm.
Thanks
@contactdeepskyconnect-uk "Create Masters & assign to Lights" will calibrate and apply to the lights.
@contactdeepskyconnect-uk "Create Masters & assign to Lights" will calibrate and apply to the lights.
Mark
You will find a workflow that works for you, but most of the time I just load my lights and masters and then go to tab 5 and hit the "normalize lights" button. The I look at the analytical graph and decide whether to delete any subs and then go straight to "integrate" at the bottom of tab 6. This is assuming I'm not doing a mosaic or a comet or whatever. APP works very well with the default settings in most (not all) cases.
By the way - you don't have to load a master bias if you have a master flat, the bias is only used to create the master flat. If you are making your master flat that's a different story, but even then I would suggest that using darkflats intead of bias is to be preferred.
JC
