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Title: Calibration Frames Library
Post by: Luigi on 2011 September 10 10:38:07

As I amass more and more calibration frames, I started thinking about how 'best' to organize my calibration library.

Presently, I have three folders: darks, bias, flats. I further break those down into subfolders each of which corresponds to a fundamental property. For example, darks/-15C/1x1. Then in that folder I will eventually have a simple-named file like master_dark.fit.

The calibration frames are in a directory structure outside of where I keep my images.

How do you guys organize yours? How long do you keep calibration frames before they go 'stale?'

Title: Re: Calibration Frames Library
Post by: NKV on 2011 September 10 12:19:53

1x1/speed/-15C/darks/Exposure/date  8)

Title: Re: Calibration Frames Library
Post by: astropixel on 2011 September 10 15:18:34

~/user/Pictures/master

then prefix with ISO and temperature if need be - 800bias 800dark 100bias etc

New flats for each session in a subfolder in the lights folder.

Keep a few months.