Newbie Questions: Preview all light before processing

[calberts]

How to preview your taken light zo you can decide which light you use and which not during processing.

Second question i lost my history tab at the left site how to get this back, to default
and last question how to sort favorites in your own way?

THanks on forhand

[Juan Conejero]

How to preview your taken light zo you can decide which light you use and which not during processing.

You can use the Blink tool by Nikolay Volkov:

http://www.pixinsight.com.ar/videos/mp4/M101Blink.mp4

Second question i lost my history tab at the left site how to get this back, to default

Select VIEW > Explorer Windows > History Explorer from the main menu.

and last question how to sort favorites in your own way?

This can't be done; favorites are sorted by name automatically. Manual reordering of favorite processes will be implemented in a future version of PixInsight.

[calberts]

Juan

Thank that was help full


Chris

[jkmorse]

Chris,

One solution for favorites that allows you to sort them anyway you want is to save them in reduced form to the side of your workspace.  Here is a screen shot of how I organize my workspace.  To shrink the icon, just click on the triangle with the line above it in the upper right of the toolbox.  Note that this will not work with dynamic tools, such as dynamic crop or DBE.  Once set up, I then just saved this as my base project and simply open it when starting each session:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0ByrTommGQM20U3RETlBuZnBKcDQ/view?usp=sharing

Hope that helps,

Jim

[Warhen]

Calberts, Blink is good. You can also open files even when they are loaded, to say ImageIntegration, by double-clicking them.  I also recommend the wonderful SubframeSelector script.

Juan, here's something I'd like to see added to Blink. Depending on the file naming conventions of data, it can be a nightmare to delete bad subs from the folder. Blink should allow us to permanently delete, or at least move (not copy) files directly. Just today I found myself bug-eyed trying to match the names of bad subs (i.e. NGC 6744_Blue_20120513032927_900) between Blink and the image folder, in order to discard it. Even using Windows Explorer's search feature made for a difficult time. I am going to repeat this in Wish List, please feel free to delete it if you wish to avoid duplication, and thanks very much PTeam!   

[JoLo]

I am with Warren, SubFrameSelector is a great tool for analyzing your light frames, i always use it in conjunction with Blink.   SFS gives you a wealth of information about your frames, including SNR and FWHM; the Plot function allows you to visualize values on mulitple frames side by side.  This is handy when selecting your "best" frame for use as a reference.  Blink is a good screen and alerts you to which frames to be wary of...SubFrameSelector then confirms this, and much more.

Joe

[Warhen]

JoLo, I feel there is disparity between the SubSel noise quotes and that of the NoiseEvaluation script's. Any thoughts? I realize they use different 'measuring sticks' but I feel as if I see little corroboration between each script's result. As an example today, the sum of two masters was quoted by the NE script with a noisier Sigma than either master alone? Yet, SS script showed comparable noise between the individuals and their sum, while weighting one individual master 3.5 times more than the other. A math natural I am not, but I wonder if others have seen disparity in measurements, or it's me. I'd like to be able to trust my results. Thanks!

[mschuster]

Hi Warren,
Please place a copy of the masters and their sum in Dropbox. I will take a look and post what I find.
Thanks,
Mike