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.
First go with app in a while and its not ended good, all was well up to the integration, after integration it left strange black marks, I thought at first it was specks on my screen, made a few changes and re run but app then crashes, so all settings etc lost, so frustrating. I don't get to do much processing as I'm usually fairly busy but its soooo annoying that something that should be simple with app just doesn't seem to work for me.
aftefacts dont seem to show up here
Do you have an example of the strange marks? I'm not sure what would cause them to be honest from your description. Which version of APP are you using?
Sorry its been a while, but I'll upload to dropbox, I have sent @mabula a dropbox link.
Hi Tony @tonymacc (& Vincent @vincent-mod),
I am finally looking at your data that you sent me using wetransfer. I did download it. Unfortunately, the downloaded data is completely corrupt, all fits frames are broken. I think something went wrong with the download while I was in London for AstroFest…
Can you send it again using either wetransfer or directly uploading it to our server:
https://ariesprodstor.astropixelprocessor.com:7001/
login and password: appuser
Make a folder with your name and let me know once uploaded 😉
I looked at your image that you posted on our forum. I think you mean black spots like this are the problem? You need to zoom in to see it properly:
That would indicate a data calibration issue. There are several possible causes:
- Are you using a Bad Pixel Map? Are you subtracting a MasterDark? Hot pixels in the MasterDark could cause this to happen. A proper Bad Pixel Map would fix it.
- Another cause could be cosmic rays in your MasterDark. Do you see Cosmic Rays in your MasterDark? If so, create your MasterDark with outlier rejection enabled to remove these artefacts from the Master. If you don’t remove these, they will create black holes in your calibrated data just like this.
Kind regards,
Mabula
Hi Mabula,
Yes I can send it again when I am back home. It's strange about those spots as this is an image I have already done in app previously using the exact same subs etc! but just wanted to see if the newer 1.075 version made any difference, I dont think I done anything different to before.
Regards,
Tony
Hi Mabula,
Yes I can send it again when I am back home. It's strange about those spots as this is an image I have already done in app previously using the exact same subs etc! but just wanted to see if the newer 1.075 version made any difference, I dont think I done anything different to before.
Regards,
Tony
Dear Tony,
I think the most likely cause is that there a cosmic rays in your masterdark and they create holes in the data when calibrating the light frames. Can you check?
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Another cause could be cosmic rays in your MasterDark. Do you see Cosmic Rays in your MasterDark? If so, create your MasterDark with outlier rejection enabled to remove these artefacts from the Master. If you don’t remove these, they will create black holes in your calibrated data just like this.
Kind regards,
Mabula
Thanks, will look, but on another note these are the exact same subs and darks etc! used on the older 1.074 version with no issues, but I will go back and have another go.
