Data Pipeline calibration, registration and integration

[mmirot]

Can anyone tell me how to use the process container to do the sequence of calibration, registration and integration?

The calibration output is created and sent to your hard drive.

Example : M33number1.fit will be calibrated and written to the hard drive path as C:\calibration files\M33number1-c.fit  Other selected images in the set will be calibrated and written to the path with the -c.

How do link these calibration daughter images to star registration? They have not been produced yet so how can they be selected?  How would you assign a reference frame?


Max

[Niall Saunders]

Hi Max,

Once you have your 'suffix -c' images (these being a collection of your 'Calibrated Lights') you then need to 'feed' this collection into the StarAlignment process - perhaps then creating a new set of 'suffix -c -r' images (these now being a collection of 'Calibrated and Registered Lights').

With your -c-r images, you then 'feed' these into ImageIntegration, eventually creating your 'MasterLight', ready for subsequent processing.

Obviously, if you are working on a mono camera with separate filters, then you will be creating a 'MasterLight' for each filter used during the acquisition process. If this IS the case, then it can be beneficial to pick ONE image from all of your data to be the 'reference' image for the StarAlignment process (this just means that you will apply fewer, un-necessary, image transformations - hopefully resulting in less 'noise injection' during the pre-processing phase, althouigh the 32-bit processing power of PI, coupled with Juan's impressive data manipulation algorithms means that you probably wouldn't see the effect anyway )

HTH

Cheers,

[mmirot]

I was hoping there was a way to automate the process.
It is very time consuming to do each step manually.
Juan said he planned a script to do this rather than integrating the work flow into the modules.
Unfortunately, 1.60 is here and no script was released.

I am dissappointed the calibration does not allow for these features.
 Even the generation of masters frames is not automated. I would think this should be easy to code.

It is not much of advancement without improving the work flow. 

Max

[vicent_peris]

I was hoping there was a way to automate the process.
It is very time consuming to do each step manually.
Juan said he planned a script to do this rather than integrating the work flow into the modules.
Unfortunately, 1.60 is here and no script was released.

I am dissappointed the calibration does not allow for these features.
 Even the generation of masters frames is not automated. I would think this should be easy to code.

It is not much of advancement without improving the work flow. 

Max

It's a matter of time... anyway, IC does a very nice job I think.

OTOH, I think that is very good for anyone to learn to do things manually.

BTW, Juan's idea of releasing a free sourcecode of IC was to develop a pipeline together with the community. This topic is very sensitive to particular user hardware.

It's clear that we do need a tool for automatic master creation, but pipeline can be carried out by scripts.


Vicent.

[mmirot]

I am sure IC does a great job. It is a lot more work to go through the sequence  manually.

Hopefully someone will pick up the task shortly.  I don't write scripts unfortunately.

Max

[vicent_peris]

I don't write scripts unfortunately.

Me too.


V