WBPP glitch when adding Calibration and Post-Calibration options

Phil Ramsay

I've been using WBPP (v2.5.9) fairly successfully for a while, but started having problems on a large set of data from multi-night sessions, when I'm near the end of my WBPP configuration, when I'm getting to add the Calibration and Post-Calibration options.  

I have five nights of data loaded up and grouped by Keyword, and everything looks matched up (as usual).

Lights have matching Darks and Flats, and the Keyword NIGHT seems to have everything properly sorted for preprocessing.

Post-Calibration tab show one output file for L, R, G, B, H.

Everything looks ready for some fine tuning in Calibration such as using my usual Cosmetic Correction template, and setting an Automatic Output Pedestal.

When I click for Cosmetic Correction, all the information in the Calibration tab disappears and I'm basically stuck to start over.

All the input Lights, Flats, Darks are still there, but nothing shows in Calibration tab...

If I go to Post-Calibration tab and select Drizzle configuration = enable, all the information in the ALL the tabs suddenly disappears...

I'm not out of computer resources I don't think.

lots of RAM, tons of disk space.

It's a more ambitious batch than average for me, but not wildly so.

Any ideas on what I might be doing wrong, or what is making the software confused?

Anything I should try doing to troubleshoot?

Is there a chance that software needs to be reinstalled or repaired?

I've really not had much trouble with PI working in the past.

I'd be happy to share more detail if it's helpful of course.

Thanks,

Phil Ramsay

(Long-time listener, First-time caller - LOL)

BlockHead

Hmmm... this is something I think you need to direct to the official Forum care of Roberto Sartori. 

When doing grouping- there is A LOT of logic going on behind the scenes. For example (this is very specific, and an advanced thing..do not do this) when I use dark frame scaling- after a grouping the data- the feature for this scaling gets reset and you need to select dark frame scaling for each group. This makes sense since you cannot assume this feature should be used for each group. There are a number of things like this ...that intiially for a single group are not an issue..but then when you break them up into multiple groups you need to assign specifically to each group (because you can't assume the feature/parameter is valid for each of them).

I do not know if this is related in your case of Cosmetic Correction... a video demonstrating the issue seems like it would be definitive. But screenshots would work too.

-the Blockhead

Phil Ramsay

Thanks Adam