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Different file names for muliti-nights for eventual stacking together
Posted: Tue Nov 26, 2024 5:10 am
by Dale R.
I have been saving frames from several nights. I have to go in and rename each nights frames : Frame_0001.fits for example is how the first frame is saved every night. So, if I have 80 frames each night, I have to go in and touch each one and rename them so I can combine later in stacking.
Is there an easier way I am missing???
Re: Different file names for muliti-nights for eventual stacking together
Posted: Tue Nov 26, 2024 1:53 pm
by admin
Hi,
yes, you can work around this - one way would be to use the option to manually set up filename templates, which gives you more control over how the file (and directory) names are created when saving. See
https://docs.sharpcap.co.uk/4.1/#Filename%20Templates
In particular, if you changed the 'Sequence (Stills)' entry so that the last part is something like
SharpCap will include the date and time in the names of the files, meaning that there will be no clash between frame 00001 from one night and the frame 00001 from the next.
cheers,
Robin