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. Â Before I release it, I will make sure that everything is working properly and then I will release it.
Hi,
I'm noticing that master dark files are being created that don't make sense to me.
For example, I just loaded one sub that is 180s in length and ISO800, put it in session 2, loaded my 180s darks in the same session, with flats and flatdarks at 1/30s exposure used across all sessions.Â
In the working folder, I now have two master files for session 2: MD-IG_800.0-E180.0s-CANON_EOS_1000D-3948x2622-session_2.fits and MD-IG_800.0-E91.0s-CANON_EOS_1000D-3948x2622-session_2.fits
I understand the E180.0s file, but where has the 91.0s file come from? None of my exposures are at 91s, and I don't get why two masters would be createdÂ
Thanks, Brendan
Is it possible you have a few files that are 91s amongst everything?
I'll have to look! I'm fairly certain not. They all say 180s in the filenames. Plus, there was only one sub in session 2. Looks like I've got a job to sift through them all, or just watch out for this happening again and then drilling down to understand what's going on.
I think they may be in the darks, not the lights. APP does create different masters if there are different darks.
How very interesting - just did a search through all my darks files, found out there's an 'exposure time' column I can view in the search results, and there it is! One 91s exposure, even though it was timed at 180s and says 180s in the filename. There are some others at different times too. Never even remotely occurred to me that this could happen. OK, well, looks like APP has revealed something I didn't know about my darks library.Â
Thanks for the help! 🙂
Nice! Have a look in the fits headers of those other exposures, maybe the capture program is having an issue there.
They're all Canon CR2 files, not FITS, but I've been through the other exposure durations and picked up a few more, which also tally with some other oddly-named masters that APP generated. So, I'm fairly sure this was the problem - just a handful of files among many - so I'm happy just doing a quick check when/if I rebuild my darks libraries in future. Learned a new thing today.
Thanks again for your help. 🙂
Excellent, I love to learn as well. 😉
