Hi Jarmo,
That sounds good.
I have been using AutoContinue,you mentioned it to me a while ago and it has saved me a lot of time.
Garth
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Hi Jarmo,
A few of other questions and potential improvement ideas.
- Stop AutoIntegrate once it starts: Is there a way to stop AI once it starts? Sometimes I click Run and realize that there is a setting that I should have enabled. When I exit AI, the process keeps running.
- Save and Load different AI profiles: I have a profile that I use for AI that loads automatically. It would be useful to have the option to save multiple profiles optimized for certain things e.g. Normal Galaxy, Bright Galaxy (where I may us a Masked Stretch), etc. Maybe we could save profiles and select them from a dropdown box? What do you think?
3.SPCC for broadband images: When you first introduced SPCC I think that we discussed it working for LRGB and maybe HOO? I have been meaning to tell you that I have used it successfully on a number of HSO and SHO images with good results. I’m not sure if you have tried this ? There is a good article here: PixInsight SPCC for Narrowband Images | Telescope Live although I have only skimmed through it. I will read it in more detail.
Garth
HI Garth,
Good ideas again.
I have added a button to select desired narrowband palettes for processing. So instead of one or all you can select those you like. How they are run is still the same so both Run and AutoContinue can be used and they do the same old processing, just the set of palettes can be chosen.
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So far I have just killed the script and canceled the processing from process console. But now there is a Cancel button! Thanks for the tip. It seem to work and cancels processing as soon as control returns from PI processing. So there is some delay sometimes. Depending when cancel happens you may or may not be able to restart processing without manual cleanup of windows.
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I was thinking that setup files could be used as profiles. If you name setup file for target processing like Galaxy.json would that work? Now there is an option to reset all options to default before setup file is loaded so only options in the setup file are used.
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SPCC for broadband images sounds interesting. I have not looked into since it was added to AutoIntegrate. Need to check it again if it works well for narrowband too.
Jarmo
Wow Jarmo - that’s amazing.
I can’t believe that you were able to do all of this so quickly.
I was just thinking of ideas that you could put into a backlog and maybe look at one day.
You are like a super-programmer!!!
I tested the cancel button and multiple Narrowband features and both worked perfectly.
Also tested creating and loading various setup files and it also works perfectly.
I chose to tick the checkbox “Reset on setup load” on my default settings (loaded when I open AI) so that when I load a config file there are no settings left checked from the default profile.
Garth
Hi Garth,
Luckily those were relatively simple changes so not a lot of coding.
SPCC seem to be more complex. Adding narrowband filer mode and filter wavelength and bandwidth are relatively easy to add. But setting while reference or QE curve are more complex. When you set those in the in the process it pulls somewhere a lot of numbers for spectrum and curve values. I remember testing it and from the script you need to give those values if you want to use something else than defaults. I have no idea where find the values.
If you are willing to test something you could test by giving only narrowband filter wavelength and bandwidth. But you would leave while reference or QE curve to default values. It would be interesting to see if it still is useful for narrowband data.
Jarmo
Hi Jarmo,
I will learn about SPCC and do some testing.
It may take me a while because I haven’t used the SPCC except for within AutoIntegrate.
If it’s not urgent, I will watch some videos and read articles to understand it better.
But I will also do some testing over the next couple of days. Looking at the SPCC tool, I think it would be fairly easy for me to run the tests that you described. I would just use the Integration_RGB file and run SPCC on it - is that correct?
I have already found a very detailed 2 part video from Adam Block:
part 1: PixInsight SpectroPhotometric Color Calibration: Part 1 (Astrometry) - YouTube
part 2: PixInsight SpectroPhotometric Color Calibration: Part 2 (The SPCC Process) - YouTube
Looking forward to this.
Garth
Hi Jarmo,
I started reading about SPCC.
You mentioned that SPCC pulls data from somewhere and you were not sure where.
You are probably aware (because you have already implemented SPCC for broadband) that there are 2 different sets of GAIA data that we need:
- Gaia DR3 set are astrometric database files used for plate solving and the ImageSolver script
- Gaia DR3/SP are photometric files used for color calibration using SPCC.
So I’m assuming that the data we need comes from the DR3/SP files.
That’s probably not much help, but I thought I would mention it just incase
Good point, need to check what actually is in those GAIA database files.
Jarmo