Exposure in file name

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roelb
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Re: Exposure in file name

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Post by roelb »

Robin,

When will this issue be solved.
It is rather annoying not to have the sub exposure time into the file names.
Thanks in advance.
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Re: Exposure in file name

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Post by Dynan »

Has there been any progress on this error? I really like to have Exposure Time when combining subs from different nights, targets, etc. Exposure time changes so much with conditions.

Thanks for your time!
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Re: Exposure in file name

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Post by admin »

Actually, there is. I did this in one of the updates of SharpCap 3.2 a few weeks back and then I obviously forgot to tell anybody about it!

If you download the latest builds you'll find that there is a new SubExposure tag available in the file name templating system which allows this problem to be resolved.

Cheers, Robin
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Re: Exposure in file name

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Some time ago I have seen that this issue has been fixed.
All works fine yet.
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Re: Exposure in file name

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admin wrote: Mon Jan 28, 2019 7:18 am Hi,

I think I would need to add another template option for 'SubExposure' to fix this properly - if I change the 'Exposure' parameter to be the sub exposure length then other things will break (like saved file metadata values).

There are a couple of other requests for more template parameters (like temperature), so I will give this area of the program an update in the future.

cheers,

Robin
A friend of mine here on Long Island started using Sharpcap recently after some sessions together and he pointed out that there is no temperature filenaming parameter. I searched the forum and found your post here and thought to follow up with it.

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Re: Exposure in file name

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Good point, although the temperature is included you capture dark frames using the dark frame wizard from the tools menu.

I will bear it in mind.

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Re: Exposure in file name

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Post by mAnKiNd »

That's right it is. However, when doing a simple start capture with frame type darks, to for example integrate later in Pixinsight, it uses the filenaming parameters.

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