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.
Hi Mabula,
I need to manipulate the header on a master dark fits file in order to change the "instrument" settings because I've started using a new capture program which calls my camera "ASI Camera (1)" rather than "ZWO ASI071MC PRO". But everytime i try the processed fits file dimensions change from 4944x3284 to 4936x3276. The change in the dimensions of my master dark file means i can't use it for processing (I'm hoping to make a dark pixel map).
Any ideas?
Many thanks Rory
Hi Rory,
I also had a problem with a change of my Ascom camera name when I loaded ASCOM and the camera drivers onto a new lap-top.
Not sure if the problem is exactly the same but I used an application FITS4Win2 (downloaded from http://astroshed.com/software.html) to edit the ASCOM camera name in my Light files to match that of my earlier calibration frames. This approach did not alter the image dimensions on my frames.
I also discovered that I could change my ASCOM camera name by running the ASCOM Diagnostics tool. After running the diagnosics use Choose Device to bring up the camera's profile. The name ie Starlight Xpress Mono Main, can be changed by editing the name, in situ, on the Profile screen, see attached screenshot.
Hope this is of some use.
Mike
PROBLEM SOLVED
Hey Mike, thank you very much. Seriously useful info ;-). I will be changing the ascom names.
I have discovered the problem with the change of pixel dimentions. APP was also debayering my fits files which it turns our changes the pixel width and height by 8 pixels. I handn't realise bc the files appear debayered in my view but really the raw files are undebayered. By forcing APP to keep the files undebayered the modified files are now the same size. Happy days.
PROBLEM SOLVED
Hey Mike, thank you very much. Seriously useful info ;-). I will be changing the ascom names.
I have discovered the problem with the change of pixel dimentions. APP was also debayering my fits files which it turns our changes the pixel width and height by 8 pixels. I handn't realise bc the files appear debayered in my view but really the raw files are undebayered. By forcing APP to keep the files undebayered the modified files are now the same size. Happy days.
