Hi,
This is a brilliant process, and I am very appreciative!
But I cannot get it to work when using multiple filters, with a monochrome camera, using the filenames that are written from APT.
In order to recognize a Dark-Flat, Flat, or Light, APT adds "_DF..", "_F", "_L..", etc. to each filename, near the beginning. For example:
Cygnus_Loop-OIII_DF_10073_2022-07-04_04-16-59_Bin1x1_0.34531s_G100__-10C
So if I have the Grouping Keywords to be "Ha", "OIII", "RED", etc., it will properly separate the groups, but will not calibrate the flats with the Dark-Flats, nor will it apply the created Master Flat to the Lights.
If I turn off the "Pre" on any of them, it then no longer separates the exposure times, and they all become lumped together.
After 2 days of many iterations, trying to get this to work, using very small sample sets of real data, the only solution I have come up with is to manually rename all the Dark-Flats and Flats to have an "_L" rather than the "_DF" and "_F" in the filenames. I usually use 6 filters with 30 Dark-Flats and 30 Flats for each, so that would be very time-consuming.
In the attached images, I have renamed the OIII Dark-Flats and Flats, but not the Ha.
As you can see, the OIII will work properly, but the Ha will not, as I did not rename any of those files.
Another option that works is to create the Masters, before going into WBPP, and only changing the names of those to all be "_L" for each group. Perhaps less labor-intensive, but not ideal, and could lead to possible mistakes.
Any help is appreciated!
Thank you
Steve