I've been wanting this image synchronisation for ages. I tried it the other day and it's great. I didn't know about the inherit astrometric solution, or the copy STF function though. Thanks :)
Nice! These are really needed updates. Can you make a video on how to have your process icons preload when Pix starts up? I’ve tried and can never get it to work. It’s not a big deal to right click and load them but sure would be nice if they’d load on their own.
Nice. It's simple but really helpful. I need a cheat sheet. Anybody know a keyboard shortcut to go back and forth over a process, that is the same function for the forward and back arrows? So if you use blurx on an image and you want to flip back and forward to see the difference. I already know about the preview one (Ctl-shift-z), but I always move off the arrows when I'm trying to compare what the process did.
Fabulous video 😀. I would probably not have found these features any time soon. BTW I don't know where I got it, but I have a Copy Astrometric Solution script under Utilities on PI 1.8.9.
Yes that is what i was referring to. We resorted to making a script to handlr it after juan pulled theirs. There was a PI thread with a bunch of us and Mike Cranfield got that one together
The astrometric solution they use os defined via a lot of splines. Cropping in the image breaks that geometry. I agree though they should find a way to preserve it versus completely trashing it.
@ I mean, yes it’s defined by splines during its generation, but once the solution is made, isn’t every pixel assigned an ra/dec position? I don’t see how retaining those definitions is hard at all.
This is directly from the PI announcement "New Feature: Drag and Drop Copy of Astrometric Solutions Astrometric solutions can now be copied among images (with compatible geometries) by dragging and dropping view selectors with the Meta key pressed (Ctrl key on macOS). "
@@setiv2 Solved it! DRag the icon FIRST then hold control key and it will then initiate the astrometry. If you don't drag it first it and hold the control key you just get the right mouse menu.
I was not able to recreate the crashing behavior in V1.9 you did select mono images for both of your stars only image if using them? you may end up having to email me the image you are having issues with
I am staying on 1.8.9-3. Juan now requires BIAS and Darks calibration subs to be XISF format and not FITS. I have several hundred Darks for different exposures and temps. This is a deal-breaker for me.
@@setiv2 I was incorrect on this. My Bad... Rel 1.9.x checks the directory structure. My directory structure had the name 'Master' in the path. My individual BIAS and Darks didn't. Starting with 1.9.x PI will issues errors if the directory name uses 'Master' someplace in its path. I have corrected this problem on my processing PC.
Another great video, Franklin. Excellent new features in 1.9. Thanks for explaining them to us.
Absolutely fantastic. I'll certainly pop over to the PI forums and thank them for these features!
I've been wanting this image synchronisation for ages. I tried it the other day and it's great. I didn't know about the inherit astrometric solution, or the copy STF function though. Thanks :)
I'm glad that you cleared up the "Meta Key" terminology 😅
Again something new learned Thx Frank
Nice summary - shift to pop over to the other image has been there a while, but these other features are quite handy.
Nice! These are really needed updates.
Can you make a video on how to have your process icons preload when Pix starts up? I’ve tried and can never get it to work. It’s not a big deal to right click and load them but sure would be nice if they’d load on their own.
You can just double click that xpsm file and it will open PI up and load your icons. I have mine on my desktop
LOVE it.
Thanks
Thanks for the video, it’s going to be a real time saver. Don’t think I would’ve found those on my own.
Nice, Thanks for showing the world these tips
Nice. It's simple but really helpful. I need a cheat sheet. Anybody know a keyboard shortcut to go back and forth over a process, that is the same function for the forward and back arrows? So if you use blurx on an image and you want to flip back and forward to see the difference. I already know about the preview one (Ctl-shift-z), but I always move off the arrows when I'm trying to compare what the process did.
Fabulous video 😀. I would probably not have found these features any time soon. BTW I don't know where I got it, but I have a Copy Astrometric Solution script under Utilities on PI 1.8.9.
Yes that is what i was referring to. We resorted to making a script to handlr it after juan pulled theirs. There was a PI thread with a bunch of us and Mike Cranfield got that one together
Thank you. It’s really useful.
I don't know why it's so hard for the Dynamic crop tool to just keep the astrometric solution by default even after a crop...
The astrometric solution they use os defined via a lot of splines. Cropping in the image breaks that geometry. I agree though they should find a way to preserve it versus completely trashing it.
@ I mean, yes it’s defined by splines during its generation, but once the solution is made, isn’t every pixel assigned an ra/dec position? I don’t see how retaining those definitions is hard at all.
Can't get astrometry to shift from one to the other on a mac, What is the key combination???
Meta is the Ctrl key on macs
@@setiv2 nope ctrl key acts as the right mouse button I tried a different number of key strokes and none could transfer the astrometry solution.
This is directly from the PI announcement "New Feature: Drag and Drop Copy of Astrometric Solutions
Astrometric solutions can now be copied among images (with compatible geometries) by dragging and dropping view selectors with the Meta key pressed (Ctrl key on macOS).
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@@setiv2 Solved it! DRag the icon FIRST then hold control key and it will then initiate the astrometry. If you don't drag it first it and hold the control key you just get the right mouse menu.
Don't know if it is pixinsight 1.9 but your narrow band star stretch script crashes on preview. First time I tried it was on 1.9
Star stretch or nbtorgbstars?
@setiv2 narrow band to rgb stars
I was not able to recreate the crashing behavior in V1.9 you did select mono images for both of your stars only image if using them? you may end up having to email me the image you are having issues with
@@setiv2 dual band image from color camera, crashes when I enable preview. I'll send you the file and a screen recording
@Hilmi12 ok sounds good
First! Even if I don't have pi
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I am staying on 1.8.9-3. Juan now requires BIAS and Darks calibration subs to be XISF format and not FITS. I have several hundred Darks for different exposures and temps. This is a deal-breaker for me.
that is incorrect, who told you that??? the MASTERs have to be in xisf format. the raw images can all be .fits, or tiff
plus PI has a batch converter script you can bulk convert them all in one go
@@setiv2 I was incorrect on this. My Bad... Rel 1.9.x checks the directory structure. My directory structure had the name 'Master' in the path. My individual BIAS and Darks didn't. Starting with 1.9.x PI will issues errors if the directory name uses 'Master' someplace in its path. I have corrected this problem on my processing PC.