gps stamp the time on my pictures

[Gtduranko]

Will this software gps stamp the time on my pictures for taking picture of mercury transit to do science? I have a canon t3.

[admin]

No, it does not stamp the file with GPS time.  Your computer date and time is used in the default image file name.

Regards,

[astroman133]

That said, there are time service applications that keep the PC time very accurate. The accurate time is provided by a network of terrestrial NTP servers, rather than from GPS satellites.

I have used the Meinberg NTP service available here --> https://www.meinbergglobal.com/english/sw/ntp.htm#ntp_stable

I used this time service to keep my PC time accurate for shooting the 2017 solar eclipse. It worked well.

Your post may be of interest to others, but unless you provide a descriptive name for the title, nobody is likely to find it.

Also, there are multiple timestamps in the EXIF data for an image. Some are put there by the camera, and some by BYE. In addition, you can have BYE put a high resolution timestamp in the name of the file, which I believe is related to the time that the Take Picture command was sent to the camera. The image file timestamps that are available by reviewing the image's properties are based on the system time when the image file was created by the Windows File Manager. You should experiment to find which of the timestamps is most useful for your application.

You also need to have an accurate time in the camera. You must set this manually as BYE cannot change the camera's time.

[astroman133]

I would also say that there are applications that overlay a visible timestamp on the image, rather than in metadata or the Windows file time. BYE does not currently provide that functionality. Doing so would be tricky. What time would be displayed? the time when image capture started? the time when image capture ended? the time when the image becomes available on the PC? Such functionality may need to support multiple use cases, i.e. use the time at different parts of the capture process.