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.
Hello,
in order to make working with the APP even better, I thought about what would help me personally.
Remove light pollution: Select and move or delete samples.
"Save" all samples from an image and apply a different filter to the image. E.g. after samples are placed on the O3 filter, place them in the exact same place for the Halpha filter.
Batch function: calibrate several individual frames and save them fully automatically calibrated and stretched as FITS/TIFF/JPG files. (For time-lapse recordings of e.g. a comet or asteroid)
Calibrate star colors: Add photometric color calibration
Star reducer: Better results for Newtonian telescopes. Also in the 400% view 😉
Sorry for my english! Google translator
Regards,
Daniel
@daniel_n Thank you for the suggestions. I passed them on to Mabula.
Hi @daniel_n,
Thank you for your proposals !
Remove light pollution: Select and move or delete samples.
"Save" all samples from an image and apply a different filter to the image. E.g. after samples are placed on the O3 filter, place them in the exact same place for the Halpha filter.
This one is already on our ToDo list 😉 We are working now on saving/remembering settings as well.
Batch function: calibrate several individual frames and save them fully automatically calibrated and stretched as FITS/TIFF/JPG files. (For time-lapse recordings of e.g. a comet or asteroid)
This is already possible I think, you can batch save your calibrated light frames in 2)Calibrate and then with the Batch Save Tool you can apply an identical stretch or auto stretch with same DDP settings and convert to TIFF 16bit for example. (Was implemented due to a request by you 😉 if I remember correctly )
Calibrate star colors: Add photometric color calibration
For this to be possble, we first need to implement plate solving so we can match stars colors with star colors from catalogues. Plate Solving is on the ToDo list as well. And I have added photometric star color calibration.
Star reducer: Better results for Newtonian telescopes. Also in the 400% view
Also on our todo list for sure !
Cheers,
Mabula
This is already possible I think, you can batch save your calibrated light frames in 2)Calibrate and then with the Batch Save Tool you can apply an identical stretch or auto stretch with same DDP settings and convert to TIFF 16bit for example. (Was implemented due to a request by you 😉 if I remember correctly )
Hello,
Thank you for your feedback. Very nice 🙂
I overlooked the fact that this is already possible. Just tested it. Works great 🙂
Now it would be nice if the individual frames could be saved automatically with the light pollution tool and calibrate star colors.
So that I have a flat and color-calibrated video when recording time-lapse. 😊
Regards,
Daniel
Hi Mabula,
Would it be an idea to use ASTAP for platesolving, works extremely fast!
Regards,
Mert
I would like a way to start up an instance of APP from a shell where I pass in a working directory path to a batch of images. This directory would include bias, darks and flats of various binings and a night's worth of robotic images. The first mode is APP creates masters from the calibration frames, then it calibrates the subs, then moves on to register and stack as appropriate. A command line option might enable auto-rejection based on the image quality metric.
The second mode does the same thing, including creating masters, but a second directory containing reference calibration masters is provided. If there are masters which match then he reference Master is used.
Wayne Rosing
Here is a first test of C-2019 Y4 as a timelapse with the new functions of APP batch save 🙂
Hello Mabula and team,
please allow me to add two more wishes to the list, which have been already proposed in the forum for years, but not been implemented up to now despite announcement:
- Possibility to define a preset of important options which are then used at start-up: E.g. force bayer matrix for OSC, No multi channel for OSC, No multi session, default file path, etc.
- Possibility to save the parameter settings for reuse.
Further I would like to propose a possibility to process multiple targets (not only sessions and channels).
Thanks a lot for this great SW and please keep going to futher improve it.
Best Regards
Ralf
