Saving raw frames

[calan]

Not sure if this is by design or not, but I consider it a bug.

When saving individual frames while stacking, all frames are being saved rather than only the ones being stacked. The frames being saved should follow the same criteria (FWHM and brightness) as the live stack. This allows bad frames to be culled out before ever being saved to disk.

If you want to maintain flexibility, you could add a checkbox to the settings: "Apply filters to saved raw frames"

[admin]

Right now it's by design - two reasons...

1) by the time SharpCap has made the decision about whether to stack the frame, the frame is no longer in its raw format any more (for instance if it is a Bayer RAW frame it will have been debayered, darks and flats will have been applied, etc). That makes it a lot simpler to just save them all before any processing is done. Of course I could just hold onto the unmodified copy, but then that means using more memory which can already be an issue with people using 20Mp+ cameras.

2) If you are going to re-process afterwards then I'd say to feed the processing app all the data - it will likely use more sophisticated (but slower) measurements of FWHM than SharpCap and might make different decisions. Or you might just decide to pull in a bit more data as reducing the noise is more important to you than picking only the sharpest frames.

cheers,

Robin

[admin]

Hah!

While digging up a tree stump in the garden this morning I realised that this is actually easy to do without using extra memory - write all the frames to disk and then delete the ones that are rejected for stacking! Will put it on the feature list.

cheers,

Robin

[Ukjay1971]

Are the individual frames totally raw - i.e. With no flats or darks applied?

Jay

[admin]

From live stacking 'save raw frames' yes. If you capture in other ways then darks/flats are applied before saving.

cheers,

Robin