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AutoIntegrate 1.00 Beta is completed. This page now describes the changes that were done in AutoIntegrate 1.00 Beta.


AutoIntegrate 1.00 Beta - image calibration

AutoIntegrate 1.00 Beta can do the whole image processing workflow including image calibration. Beta version can be downloaded from GitHub branch image-calibration. See side bar on the left.

For a generic overview of AutoIntegrate script see page PixInsight AutoIntegrate.js Script

Below are listed major changes in the Beta version.

Image calibration

Script can do image calibration if needed. Two basic workflows are supported:

  1. Calibrating with bias, darks and flats
  2. Calibrating with darks, flat darks (or dark flats) and flats

If any of the calibration files are not available the script tries to run calibration with the remaining files.

YouTube video of image calibration

Video

AutoIntegrate output directories

AutoIntegrate will by default put output files into subdirectories.

By default output files are written into the same directory as the first light file in the file list. Users can also give an absolute or relative path to the output directory.

Saving settings to script icon

It is possible to save your own default options to a script icon. It can then be used to recall default settings. Script icons can be saved to a file.

Settings are saved by dragging the lower left corner triangle icon to the desktop. By double clicking the icon a script window opens. Clicking the Apply global button starts the script with those settings that are saved to the icon. PixInsight also saves MD5 checksum to the script icon. When using the script icon with a modified script you need to clear the checksum field first.

Save buttons work for all final images

Save buttons under section 'Save final image files' save any image that has AutoIntegrate finalimage tag attached. Script adds those tags automatically. Tags are saved only for .xisf files. 16 bit TIFF files do not have _16 added to the file name any more.

Debayering is done by the script

AutoIntegrate does debayering of images by default so no automatic debayering should be done. For OSC/DSLR files PixInsight should be put into Pure RAW mode. It can be set in Format Explorer by double clicking RAW format.

Usually the Auto option works fine for debayering. If there is no metadata in the image file to detect debayering pattern then it can be selected manually in the Lights files page. Choosing None assumes that debayering is already done.

Adding filter files manually

Added a section for light and flat files to add filter files manually. It is enabled when 'Do not use FILTER keyword’ or 'Add manually' is checked. There are separate buttons for each filter type recognized by the script. Also color/OSC/DSLR files can be added manually. Manual adding is useful if FILTER keyword is missing or just for overriding filter keyword.

Window name prefix

Added a functionality to give user specified prefix to image window names. This makes all generated window names unique and allows results from multiple processing runs to be open at the same time. These images are also iconized at different columns on the screen. This piece of code was contributed by rob pfile.

Other changes

Credits

PixInsight scripts that come with the product were a great help when developing this script. Website Light Vortex Astronomy was a great place to find details and best practises when using PixInsight.

Routines ApplyAutoSTF and applySTF used by AutoIntegrate are from scripts that are distributed with Pixinsight. Routines for Linear Defect Detection are from PixInsight scripts LinearDefectDetection.js and CommonFunctions.jsh that are distributed with Pixinsight.

This product is based on software from the PixInsight project, developed by Pleiades Astrophoto and its contributors (https://pixinsight.com/).

Many thanks to rob pfile for contributing the Window name prefix and icon column position code.

Special thanks to Erik Westermann, Glenn Newell and Jari Backman for testing different versions of the script.