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Originally Posted by RickS
I used to do that and despite being an obsessive-compulsive computer geek it wore thin after a while. If you're doing a full calibration it requires: - integrating the bias frames to make a master bias
- calibrating the individual dark frames
- integrating the calibrated dark frames to make a master
- calibrating the individual flat frames
- integrating the calibrated flat frames to make a flat master
- calibrating the individual light frames
- integrating the calibrated light frames to make light master
Multiple that by multiple filters and different sub times and it really makes a lot more sense to use a script!
The most important thing to do manually is the final integration of light frames since you'll get best results by tuning the rejection algorithm and parameters. Using BPP to do the calibration and registration is a big time/effort saving.
Cheers,
Rick. |
This is why I am planning on doing some proper testing of the differences in having MaxIM DL calibrating the images as they're taken or having PI do it. MaxIM does it all so FAST, on the fly and without any issues.
From the little bit of testing I have done in the past, PI does better by a fraction better when running from start to finish. I am yet to test just the calibration of the two however. I found that I get a slightly (very slight) improvement with SNR with PI but I get rounder stars with MaxIM.