Calibrate, no demosaic, and platesolve option
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Is there an option to just calibrate and plate solve without demosaicing? All the options I saw that did this created a color image as well. My process is calibrate, platesolve, and then split into R,G,B. Was hoping to do this in one step
Hi John,
That or two or three actions. If you do it for photometry select the files in tab photometry, call the popup menu of the photmetry tab and select calibrate. Then select all calibrated files again and select in the same popup menu "Split into G or R, G, B files". Solving will be done later automatically in the photometry tab.
Else you have the stacking option "Calibrate, no demosaic". Then in the viewer TOOLS, BATCH PROCESSING, select RAW COLOUR SEPERATIOM and after that in the same batch menu SOLVE....
cs, Han
Thank you for the response. That's basically what I do now, although I solve before splitting. Since I'm dealing with two or three thousand images a night, solving first saves a lot of time rather than splitting and solving each of the split images.
Handling thousands of files will keep the computer busy for some time. Yes solving before splitting in two or three colours will save some time. In principle you could get an solve offset of probably a 1/2 pixel if you solve prior to splitting. But that would not matter for photometry since it is accurate enough. Splitting will also remove the SIP coefficients to cope with distortion(Because they can't be (easilly) resized). So star detection at the edges could be a little less reliable.
I assume you want to automate the whole process more. Share ideas if you have them. That is something I could consider in the future, mid November earliest.
Han