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Originally Posted by Slawomir
The easiest and most reliable way is to use Batch Preprocessing script in PixInsight. It automatically does stacking of bias, dark and flat frames and effectively calibrates the lights. Master Jedi Rick also uses this script in his workflow so it must be good  |
Thanks, Suavi
Tim: unless you're doing something quite exotic, BPP is usually perfectly good enough to do the calibration and registration... but always do ImageIntegration manually!
I wouldn't, and don't, bother to do short darks to match the flats. If you throw the flats, normal darks (or master dark previously created with BPP) and bias frames (or master bias previously created with BPP) into BPP it will do the best it can. If the darks don't help improve the SNR of the master flat you'll see warning messages and they won't be used:
"Warning: No correlation between the master dark and target frames"
Cheers,
Rick.