I'm a noob at astrophotography and in just a short time it is easy to see one creates a plethora of files just in one nights shooting. I'm never one to reinvent the wheel if a good one exists. What I'm looking for is a structure for a astrophotography database that I can set up on my own personal servers. I have an Astrobin account but that is more for show & tell not for storing and organizing all of your source material. I'm fairly well versed in Linux and such and have a number of RAID servers in my home. I was thinking before I got too far down the road in making a completely disorganized mess of my shots it would be better to get some structure to my work. There are a number of ways of attacking this from on the low side to just keeping a well organized local file structure and then have a local GIT server on one of my network servers and then just sync things as needed. This is probably the easiest to set up and maintain but the least useful in terms of searching and retrieving lots of information as the size grows and time goes on. I would think next I'd look at a MySQL server with a PHP front end to allow for inputting and then query retrival. I'm not looking for anyone to solve my problem just possibly some input as to how others are solving/ignoring this or if there are some examples on the net that others are either using or have seen. I have to believe I'm not the first person looking to do this.
I'd also be interested in the take of what the experienced astrophotographers do with a nights shooting... for example, once you have stacked/aligned and generated your flat/dark/bias frames do you keep the original source files or just trash them? What about the source images themselves?
Sorry if this has been asked before on this forum. I did do a quick search and did not see anything pop up that looked similar.
Thanks much!
I'd also be interested in the take of what the experienced astrophotographers do with a nights shooting... for example, once you have stacked/aligned and generated your flat/dark/bias frames do you keep the original source files or just trash them? What about the source images themselves?
Sorry if this has been asked before on this forum. I did do a quick search and did not see anything pop up that looked similar.
Thanks much!