Yeah that's usually my strategy but unfortunately it just got too hot at night during this cycle.my recommendation is: Stick to one single temperature and do not optimize darkframes at all.
Better make proper darks and avoid dark scaling.
Yeah WBPP should segregate input frames by temperature.it would be a heavy lift as PI itself does not pay attention to sensor temperature. or are you suggesting WBPP should segregate input frames by temperature as well as filter and match a dark based on temperature? that is probably doable.
If I understand correctly, you've added some flat frames and WBPP recognizes the first as the master of the group. This happens for two reasons, the word "master" is written in the value of the flat's IMAGETYP keyword, or, most probably, the full path of the file contains the word "master". In the second case you have to uncheck the global option "include the file path to detect Masters".Right now I am trying to use WBPP and I have a master bias, but I am integrating the dark and flat frames using raw files, no masters.
WBPP keeps trying to make the first flat frame a master flat. I realize that it is looking int eh fits header to determine if the subs are masters or not but it is failing to work properly so I cannot properly calibrate my data. Can we please bring back the ability to simply tell if each frame is a master or a group of data?
Also, I commonly shoot different exposure sets. Sometimes I even shoot at different gains.
It would be great if we could batch calibrate per exposure and per gain so that we could register and integrate all of the calibrated frames at once.
right now I have to go through and calibrate each exposure length. Then I manually register all the calibrated frames and manually integrate all of the registered frames.
Hi,
If I understand correctly, you've added some flat frames and WBPP recognizes the first as the master of the group. This happens for two reasons, the word "master" is written in the value of the flat's IMAGETYP keyword, or, most probably, the full path of the file contains the word "master". In the second case you have to uncheck the global option "include the file path to detect Masters".
This can be already done by using the keyword GAIN since this keyword is usually written into the FITS header. Depending if you need only to separate the groups by gain during the calibration or if you want to manage separately gropus with different gain up to the integration you can enable this keyword for calibration only or for both calibration and post processing.
If needed, you'll have do adjust the matching between your flats and your light groups if the gain does not match.
Anyway, this scenario should be manageable with the current 2.1.2 version.
Let us know if you need further support!!
Robyx
Yes, exposure times are always taken into account. The exposure tolerance parameter in the corrispondente image type panel is also relevant to determine how much exposure difference you tolerate when grouping frames by exposures.Thanks Rob. I realized that I had named teh master folder for the flats on my PC, Master Flats instead of Flats. I fixed that and the issue went away as would be expected.
Im going to have to try what you suggest with my light frames regarding gain. Does this also take into account exposure times?