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New trouble in WBPP

Richard SauerbrunRichard Sauerbrun
in PixInsight
After months of error free processing (mostly thanks to your videos), my WBPP is failing on the LN reference generation and the local normalization. "Unable to find reference frame"

I have run both with "auto" (my usual setting) and the manual approach selecting a light frame. But both methods still fail.

I have checked the FITS header info on the light frames and the astrometric solutions are there, as well as all the other normal meta data.

What changed? I am attaching a screen shot as well as the log fie. I very much appreciate your assistance.

Comments

  • BlockHeadBlockHead
    I don't know. Nothing has changed in WBPP.

    1. Your light frame file names have spaces in them. It think this is very bad practice. 
    2. You need to make certain you have long path names enabled.
    3. You always need to do things from scratch when troubleshooting WBPP... it appears you are using caching.

    -the Blockhead
  • Richard SauerbrunRichard Sauerbrun
    Hi Adam,

    Thanks for the tips ... I am running another WBPP process and will report results. I made sure to delete the previous cache files, and I checked my light frame file names ... no spaces. I have attached a few screen shots and will report results with log file.
    PI Reset.jpg
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    File Names.jpg
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    WBPP Ready to Go.jpg
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  • BlockHeadBlockHead
    There isn't a space after SH2- ???
    It looks like there is.

    -the Blockhead
  • BlockHeadBlockHead
    Wait! 
    You do not want to apply your keyword distinction to the DARKS. This is a misconfiguration and is certainly a part of the problem. 

    WBPP already matches on Filter Names as long as they are in the header. If you do no have the filter names in the header- then you CAN use a keyword as you are doing. But you do NOT want to apply to the darks.

    Furthermore, you can do this brute force by using the Add Custom button and avoid the keyword logic until you really really understand it.

    Let me know if I am on the right track.
    -the Blockead
  • Richard SauerbrunRichard Sauerbrun
    The file names come right out of my ASIAir ... so I do not believe there are any spaces.

    Thanks for the tip on the Darks and the keywords. I will avoid this in the future.

    When I shoot with my C8 and HyperStar, I cannot use the filter wheel, so I have to change filters manually. And the ASIAir does not give me a chance to enter the filter name, so it is not in the FITS header. I organize both the lights and the flats/dark flats into folders and use the keyword to group them. This is much like grouping by night only I named the folders "Filter-C1" and "Filter-C2"

    This run actually finished without errors and I got six master lights, organized by filter name, auto crop, and drizzle.
  • Richard SauerbrunRichard Sauerbrun
    One other question ...

    When I drizzle (I dither during the imaging sequence) and auto crop in WBPP, I seem to lose the astrometric solution for the masters. Is this normal?

    And when I try Image Solver on the masters, it fails (screen shot attached) I have attached the FITS header for the drizzled, auto cropped master and it looks OK to me?

    Should I avoid the auto crop and do this manually?
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    FITS Header.jpg
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  • BlockHeadBlockHead
    You did not indicate an important piece of information. Did you upsample as part of the drizzle?
    Best practice is to drizzle 1x1 unless you meet some very high bars for up-drizzling.

    If you did upsample... this is why you are not able to plate solve manually. You need to just the platescale by halving it... or increase the focal length by doubling it. If you do not believe me... you can use AstroSeti's GUI for Astrometry.net- but you will need to get a API key.

    -the Blockhead
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