Thanks Shawn,, I noticed last weekend when I had PI running on my new laptop WPBB had changed.... yor video explains the changes very clearly..... Keep 'em coming.
New to Pixinsight and I'm glad I found your channel. I just started your M31 Tutorial I purchased last week. Thank you for this WBPP 2 tutorial. Perfect timing!
Hey Shawn, have been following your videos for some time and they have become a very important video reference library. Thanks for all the work you put in as I'm sure many folks like me use these on a regular basis...Thanks !!
Another good video. It answered a few questions I had. I have been told with my ASi2600MC Pro OSC camera not to check either 'Optimize Master Darks' and not to include BIAS. Just Darks, Flat/Darks, and Flats. Is this your understanding?
Great video mate, thanks for sharing. Very clear approach into explaining every detail. Just a quick question, where would load up dark flats? Will they be auto detected? Thanks
The flat darks get loaded under the darks tab. Along with your dark frames. WBPP2 will know what they are. You no longer have to check off that you're using flat darks.
Another great PixInsight tutorial. Love batch preprocessing, it is such a time saver. Now to figure out why all my images come out black and white event though I'm following all the same steps I used to; CFA, setup for DSLR raw files, etc. Even restacking of old images are coming out grayscale suddenly. Not sure if it was a faulty install of an update, but hopefully I can figure it out soon.
thanks your videos is a great tool. Question, do you any video showing how to load dark flats in WBPP, i have alot of problems from APT subs, thanks keep them coming
I don't think I show in a video loading flat darks. But you simple load them into the "darks" tab in WBPP 2 just like you would standard dark frames. The script will automatically know they are flat darks.
Shawn ... I continue to go back and again watch several of your great videos. This one in particular has been my primary source of info on how to work WBPP. I have tried to follow your work flow exactly, but am not getting the same results. For some reason, I keep getting "Failed to measure" errors on my subs (FITS) from my ASI294MC Pro OSC. Any chance you could give me a few tips? Thanks.
The tip about making sure Master Darks/Flats have 'Master' in the file name was a life saver - I tried WBPP using my existing named masters ( without the word Master in the file name) and WBPP singularly failed.
Thank you Shawn for sharing your experience! I'm still doing visual but I like to wacht your tutorials! Maybe in the future I'll step up to astrophotografy! One question, what do you think are the minimum computer requirements for astrophtografy?
Thank you Shawn for the video. I have been doing Blink and Subframe selector before loading the frame into WBPP. I have not used the "Subframe Weighting" in WBPP. Can you skip the SFS if using the SW in the script ? and can you comment on any adjustments in the Weighting Parameters under SW.
Seems if you didnt generate the master files in Pixi, they dont show up as master flats or darks with 2.0. I have master flats/darks/dark flats generated from AstroPixel and unless you rename the file to include master and dark or flat in the file name it doesnt know to call it the master file.
Great video! I am just trying out WBPP v2 for the first time on the Flaming star nebula now... got almost 12 hrs of approved images from SubFrameSelector which I am going to run through WBPP, it will be interesting to see the results!
Hi Shawn, i may have missed it but how do you get the DarkFlats into the WBPP process or did i understand they get created automatically every time with the process ? basically if i have them ( ... and i do ) would i add them to FLATS or DARKS tab of someplace else ... thanks
Hey Shawn and thanks for this video. I'm still confused what to use between biases and flat frames with my ASI2600MC. Do I have to use dark frame optimization? only dark frame? biases and dark frames? It's a little bit tricky and I just can't see the differences in the final master after trying all these solutions
Not sure about the 2600 but my 294 needs to be processed with Flat-Darks and not bias frames. Using bias frames doesn't work well with the really short exposure times.
@@alexgti9345 Bias frames are made with the lens cap on, same gain/temp as lights but the shortest exposures the camera can take. flat-darks are similar but exposure length matches the length of the flats.
I know the 294 gets unpredictable results when trying to take shortest possible exposures so better to take dark-flats which are generally slightly longer exposures.
@@anthonyexmouth what do you call unpredictable results actually? Could you please explain? I just can't see a difference when I use biases+flats and/or flat darks to calibrate flats. I even tried to use biases , darks, flats, flat darks and dark optimization altogether and still can't see a difference in the final master light..
I get the message # of stars not defined....I have posted my problem on the PI Forum. The tutorial is great but doesn't solve what is going wrong with why PI is balking
You can check for updates inside PixInsight if it didn't do it automatically. Once it downloads it from the repository, you will have to restart Pix to install it. Then it should show as ver 2.0.2 or later.
I like the content of your videos but, recommendations if I may. Delete the talking head inset video. It adds nothing and sometimes covers over content. Intros and summaries are appropriate for non-content video but, during the presentation, avoid using them (the insets). Also, consider using a cursor enhancement program as the cursor is hard to follow on a tablet device. E cursor is hard to follow on a tablet screen.
@@mode1charlie170 please note, you still need to run the DrizzleIntegration process afterwards. WBPP just generates the drizzle data, it doesn't drizzle integrate.
@@JonnyBravo0311 Ok thanks thats what I what i was thinking. Ill have to update to the new version of PI as I couldn’t get batch processing to work for me in my previous version. This should cut help cut down a few steps. Thanks guys!
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Wow thank you Chuck! That is super of you. :)
Thanks Shawn,, I noticed last weekend when I had PI running on my new laptop WPBB had changed.... yor video explains the changes very clearly..... Keep 'em coming.
Glad it helped
New to Pixinsight and I'm glad I found your channel. I just started your M31 Tutorial I purchased last week. Thank you for this WBPP 2 tutorial. Perfect timing!
Thanks Shawn another very helpful presentation
Thanks so much for the great info Shawn!
Keep them coming Shawn - Great Tutorials
Thanks Shawn, great tutorial as always.
Thanks Shawn, great video as always. For some reason I can't find any link to download the new WBPP. Where can I download it from?
Hey Shawn, have been following your videos for some time and they have become a very important video reference library. Thanks for all the work you put in as I'm sure many folks like me use these on a regular basis...Thanks !!
Another good video. It answered a few questions I had. I have been told with my ASi2600MC Pro OSC camera not to check either 'Optimize Master Darks' and not to include BIAS. Just Darks, Flat/Darks, and Flats. Is this your understanding?
Thanks Shawn. This and your EZ suite videos will help me evaluate PI v APP which are both on trial at the moment.
Hey, hey. I finally got the first view!! Great video Shawn. Made it very easy to understand.
Awesome! Thank you!
Great video mate, thanks for sharing. Very clear approach into explaining every detail. Just a quick question, where would load up dark flats? Will they be auto detected? Thanks
The flat darks get loaded under the darks tab. Along with your dark frames. WBPP2 will know what they are. You no longer have to check off that you're using flat darks.
G’day Shawn
Thanks for great tutorial
Unfortunately weather here still not great but I’m going to use your data of M31 & try out
Cheers mate
Hi Ben! Thanks for watching :)
Great Video. What are your thoughts to cosmetic correction?
Another great PixInsight tutorial. Love batch preprocessing, it is such a time saver. Now to figure out why all my images come out black and white event though I'm following all the same steps I used to; CFA, setup for DSLR raw files, etc. Even restacking of old images are coming out grayscale suddenly. Not sure if it was a faulty install of an update, but hopefully I can figure it out soon.
Thanks for doing this 👍🏻
thanks your videos is a great tool. Question, do you any video showing how to load dark flats in WBPP, i have alot of problems from APT subs, thanks keep them coming
I don't think I show in a video loading flat darks. But you simple load them into the "darks" tab in WBPP 2 just like you would standard dark frames. The script will automatically know they are flat darks.
Shawn ... I continue to go back and again watch several of your great videos. This one in particular has been my primary source of info on how to work WBPP. I have tried to follow your work flow exactly, but am not getting the same results. For some reason, I keep getting "Failed to measure" errors on my subs (FITS) from my ASI294MC Pro OSC. Any chance you could give me a few tips? Thanks.
Maybe Im overlooking something but, how do you WBPP Multiple exposures and use cosmetic correction based master darks for each exposure set?
The tip about making sure Master Darks/Flats have 'Master' in the file name was a life saver - I tried WBPP using my existing named masters ( without the word Master in the file name) and WBPP singularly failed.
Thank you Shawn for sharing your experience! I'm still doing visual but I like to wacht your tutorials! Maybe in the future I'll step up to astrophotografy! One question, what do you think are the minimum computer requirements for astrophtografy?
Hi , Any chance of updating this WBPP with 2.3.1, I seem to always still end up in grey scale, with my OSC data. Thanks Steve
Thank you Shawn for the video. I have been doing Blink and Subframe selector before loading the frame into WBPP. I have not used the "Subframe Weighting" in WBPP. Can you skip the SFS if using the SW in the script ? and can you comment on any adjustments in the Weighting Parameters under SW.
Seems if you didnt generate the master files in Pixi, they dont show up as master flats or darks with 2.0. I have master flats/darks/dark flats generated from AstroPixel and unless you rename the file to include master and dark or flat in the file name it doesnt know to call it the master file.
Great video! I am just trying out WBPP v2 for the first time on the Flaming star nebula now... got almost 12 hrs of approved images from SubFrameSelector which I am going to run through WBPP, it will be interesting to see the results!
Good job! 🍻
Hi Shawn, i may have missed it but how do you get the DarkFlats into the WBPP process or did i understand they get created automatically every time with the process ? basically if i have them ( ... and i do ) would i add them to FLATS or DARKS tab of someplace else ... thanks
Hi Gary - add them under the darks tab. WBPP2 will see them as flat darks. Cheers
@@VisibledarkAstro Thanks for this, Just starting my trial and this had me stumped.
Ok I have a quad band filter how do I account for that in Pixinsight? - Paul
Adam Blocks you tube channel has a series on Wbpp. I highly recommend it.
Yes Adam has some good vids as well.
So, if using Dark-Flats, do you just load them under "Add Darks"? (and put nothing in Bias)
Yes dark flats go under darks tab. And no need for bias frames if using dark flats.
Hey Shawn and thanks for this video. I'm still confused what to use between biases and flat frames with my ASI2600MC. Do I have to use dark frame optimization? only dark frame? biases and dark frames? It's a little bit tricky and I just can't see the differences in the final master after trying all these solutions
Not sure about the 2600 but my 294 needs to be processed with Flat-Darks and not bias frames. Using bias frames doesn't work well with the really short exposure times.
@@anthonyexmouth ok thanks but what do you call really short exposures? I usually work shoot at 300s , and sometimes up to 1000s
@@alexgti9345 Bias frames are made with the lens cap on, same gain/temp as lights but the shortest exposures the camera can take.
flat-darks are similar but exposure length matches the length of the flats.
I know the 294 gets unpredictable results when trying to take shortest possible exposures so better to take dark-flats which are generally slightly longer exposures.
@@anthonyexmouth what do you call unpredictable results actually? Could you please explain? I just can't see a difference when I use biases+flats and/or flat darks to calibrate flats. I even tried to use biases , darks, flats, flat darks and dark optimization altogether and still can't see a difference in the final master light..
I get the message # of stars not defined....I have posted my problem on the PI Forum. The tutorial is great but doesn't solve what is going wrong with why PI is balking
So if you're using flat darks instead of bias frames where do they get loaded?
They get loaded under the darks tab!
@@VisibledarkAstro Ah cool, do they have to be named in any specific way or will it auto detect and separate darks and flat darks?
@@anthonyexmouth it will auto detect they are flat darks!
In previos version, when i click optimize dark frames, they don't remove my amp glow from my camera asi1600mm p.
Darks will remove ampglow. If they don't then something may be wrong with your dark frames.
Uh, how come I don’t have it? Do I need to download it?
You can check for updates inside PixInsight if it didn't do it automatically. Once it downloads it from the repository, you will have to restart Pix to install it. Then it should show as ver 2.0.2 or later.
I like the content of your videos but, recommendations if I may. Delete the talking head inset video. It adds nothing and sometimes covers over content. Intros and summaries are appropriate for non-content video but, during the presentation, avoid using them (the insets). Also, consider using a cursor enhancement program as the cursor is hard to follow on a tablet device.
E cursor is hard to follow on a tablet screen.
Would be nice if it could handle drizzle.....
It does! Under light tab > image registration > generate drizzle data
@@VisibledarkAstro Oh great! Ill have to check that out. Thanks Shawn......
@@mode1charlie170 please note, you still need to run the DrizzleIntegration process afterwards. WBPP just generates the drizzle data, it doesn't drizzle integrate.
@@JonnyBravo0311 Ok thanks thats what I what i was thinking. Ill have to update to the new version of PI as I couldn’t get batch processing to work for me in my previous version. This should cut help cut down a few steps. Thanks guys!