Wish
Have an option to let (a minimalist) SubframeSelector pop up after debayer to interactively go through the frame rejection based on the usual suspects (fwhm, eccentricity, stars etc).
Reason
Before WBPP frame I did frame rejection manually - with Blink for the grossly damaged frames and SubframeSelector for the more intricate cases (like filtering for star count to catch mildly clouded frames and eccentricity or fwhm to improve sharpness of the integration result).
With WBPP I can still do my blinking before, but the frame rejection algorithm during WBPP is not adjustable. And it's really relaxed and has no trouble letting frames with 0.65 eccentricity pass (which may be good for SNR but kind of damages star shapes occasionally). If I had a mono camera, I would be pragmatic and just run SubframeSelector on my input subs but I shoot OSC so I would have to do this on the debayered frames which are temporary files in the middle of the WBPP process. I could stop WBPP, run SS, make notes which files are bad and manually remove them from the WBPP input but that's manual and really tedious for long integrations with 200+ subs. Sadly, those huge are the ones were you can cull your frames best because you don't have to fight SNR so bad and actually have the headroom to throw out offending subs. So I feel there's a capability gap in WBPP that could easily be closed because all the ingredients are already there.
Thanks for considering this.
Jesco
Have an option to let (a minimalist) SubframeSelector pop up after debayer to interactively go through the frame rejection based on the usual suspects (fwhm, eccentricity, stars etc).
Reason
Before WBPP frame I did frame rejection manually - with Blink for the grossly damaged frames and SubframeSelector for the more intricate cases (like filtering for star count to catch mildly clouded frames and eccentricity or fwhm to improve sharpness of the integration result).
With WBPP I can still do my blinking before, but the frame rejection algorithm during WBPP is not adjustable. And it's really relaxed and has no trouble letting frames with 0.65 eccentricity pass (which may be good for SNR but kind of damages star shapes occasionally). If I had a mono camera, I would be pragmatic and just run SubframeSelector on my input subs but I shoot OSC so I would have to do this on the debayered frames which are temporary files in the middle of the WBPP process. I could stop WBPP, run SS, make notes which files are bad and manually remove them from the WBPP input but that's manual and really tedious for long integrations with 200+ subs. Sadly, those huge are the ones were you can cull your frames best because you don't have to fight SNR so bad and actually have the headroom to throw out offending subs. So I feel there's a capability gap in WBPP that could easily be closed because all the ingredients are already there.
Thanks for considering this.
Jesco