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Thanks Chris,

Good point. Indeed maybe use the pedestal option not only where background sky glow is low but also in the case of shorter, lower SNR and noisier exposures which exhibit proportionally higher scatter?

Tim

Yes, such as for your DSO “lucky imaging” approach. I will be interested to hear if it helps there.
Cheers, Chris.

Menno555 wrote: Fri Oct 01, 2021 7:07 pm Hi Tim

Actually, you can add it. If you use the parameter {BlackLevel} in the Manual Filename Templates, this will be added to the name.
It's kinda confusing cause BlackLevel, Offset and Brightness are the same things here...

Menno

Actually as I have been experimenting with Brightness (ZWO 533MC Pro) I would love to add this to my filenames as well and would like to know exactly how to do this in SharpCap Settings>Filenames>???

Maybe somebody could paste an example of their entry, and where it is located, as there are five different templates possible.

This would be such a welcome help.

Randall

Hi Randall

Here somethings that might help you. This all based on the screenshot you see below as example.
When you click the question mark I circled in green, you will see a short list with all the tagnames and formats. These you can use in the filetemplate to make it as you wish. SharpCap will indicate if it recognizes the right tags/formats or not.
First you have to give SharpCap a place where to store the captures. In my case F:\Captures\SharpCap
Second, check the box for editing filenames manually.

For naming of your captures (stills), the template is the line called Sequence (Stills) (the second green underlined part).
An example on how it will look on your disk, is the line called Sequence (the first green underlined part).

So in the screenshot, the template is: And this gives this on your harddisk (this is pure an example, it says for example PNG at the end but with the actual capturing it will save it as the format you choose under the tab Saving in the Settings.):
Hope this helps a bit.

Menno

Both questions answered perfectly - THANK YOU!!!!