SC 3.3.7146 - 1 sec frames being saved when dithering when using Livestack

[NeilG]

Hi Robin,
After a long time with clouds, finally managed to get some imaging in.
Noticed that when using PHD to guide and when it dithers SC seems to save 1 second frames to the live stacking folder. the number of 1 sec frames seems to vary - depending upon how long it takes PHD to settle. Not a show stopper, but I need to remember to delete the 1 sec frames before stacking the rets in Astropixelprocessor.

log file attached - first exposures start at around timestamp of 19:40. I had to truncate the file from timestamp 22:05~ as it was 1.3Mb but there are at least 2 or 3 imaging runs in the log

Exposure set to 20 seconds and dither interval set to 80 secs so that I hope to dither every 4 frames.

This happened with each of the targets I imaged that evening.

Regards
Neil

[admin]

Hi Neil,

can you just check how you have configured the saving of raw frames for me?

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You need to choose the highlighted option - 'Save except when Paused/Dithering'. If you choose 'Save All' then it will save the 1s frame while dithering.

cheers,

Robin

[NeilG]

Robin,
Yep, that's the problem - I must have missed spotting that in the previous discussions about dithering.

Thanks
Neil

[admin]

Hi Neil,

Glad to hear that it wasn't anything more serious

Cheers, Robin