Batch Pre-processing Script?

[mads0100]

I noticed something with the batch-preprocessing script and I have a question.  Is there a way to do flat frames in BPP the way it's described in this tutorial?

http://www.pixinsight.com/tutorials/master-frames/index.html

I couldn't figure out how to do it that way... and it makes a huge difference in my images when I do it manually as described in that thread.  I don't mind doing it manually; but man it'd be sweet if I didn't have to .

Thank you for your help!
Chris

[TobiasLindemann]

Hi Chris,

it´s hard to say. What´s going wrong with the flats, when you use the BPP?
I had problems with the BPP too. My fault was, that I used not the same ISO as for the lights. The script uses the "light"-darks for the flats too, if you do not load extra flat-darks in the darks section and I think the ISO is not scaled right. The same problem is with bias. So it is better to use the same ISO. If you load extra flat-darks, the BPP uses them automatically for the right pictures. With DSLRs it is better to make flat-darks, even it is not necessary, because you can not deactivate the dark-calibration in the script. So the script uses the wrong darks and wants to scale them. With CCDs this works well, but not always with DSLRs, because the DSLRs are not as linear as the CCDs.
I hope that helps, but maybe your problem is different.

Greetings
Tobias

[mads0100]

No, that's not my problem.  What I found is the settings that are in the tutorial aren't available in the BPP script.  If I do calibration via BPP, horrible results.  If I calibrate manually, I get good results.

Once I have master flats manually, it's not a huge deal.  But, I like for BPP to do my calibration.  Apparently, I'm the only one with this problem so it must be me then.

[TobiasLindemann]

Hi,
what setting your are missing in the BPP?
Maybe it helps if you post a result image from the BPP. If you can upload some example-images of your series somewhere, I would gladly test to calibrate them in BPP.
For a long time I calibrated my images manually, but with BPP it is so much faster and easier. Recently I calibrated some images with the BPP-script. Since I used the same ISO and flatdarks, it worked perfectly.

Tobias

[jerryyyyy]

Chris, I do it with BPP.  I just load the Master Bias and Darks and off I go.  I think the settings are mirrored one-to-one in the BPP versus manual.

[mads0100]

Interesting, because I get significantly better results when I do my flats manually... I dunno then. :/