Take Flat frames out of Film Strip

[Mike]

I often do my imaging among visual astronomers. I take great care to avoid damaging their darkness adaptation with my equipment, my monitor in particular, The only time I get into trouble is when I've finished taking a series of flats. Sometimes I have a flat frame on my monitor and it looks like I have a lighthouse beacon on my laptop. It would be handy if BYE had an option to make flats not appear in the images at the bottom of the screen among the light frames.

Not in a big hurry for it, and BYE is a fine program without it. Still I think this feature would make BYE Just a bit better.

[admin]

This is somewhat implemented now in 3.1.10.

Sort of... let me explain.

Images are now added to the thumbnail only then the thumbnail strip is display.  Starting with 3.1.10, if you hide the thumbnail strip while you are taking your flats they will not be added into the thumbnail strip.  When you display the thumbnail strip again they won't be there.

Regards,

[s3igell]

One can, and probably SHOULD, always use a Red Screen App (BackyardRED) or even Better a Rubylith Red Filter over their Laptop whenever out in the Field.  Failing that, one can simply Click the FilmStrip (Thumbnail) Icon in order to suppress the FilmStrip full of bright Flats, and can rattle off a quick Snap Exposure in order to dismiss the Current Image from the main Image Center display.

 

That said, I'd further the Suggestion by adding that the FilmStrip should have an Option to display ONLY Light (and Unclassified / Preview) Frames.

Or BYE could "Stack" all the Calibration Frames into a single FilmStrip Image (with a Frame Counter), as no one really wants/needs to "Inspect" each individual Bias or Flat or Dark.  Nor does listing a series of 30+ Lights in the FilmStrip as Individual Images do anything but push the last Light Frame so far down the FilmStrip as to never be seen again...

[admin]

I like this simple yet should-be-easy-to-implement feature.

If I go ahead with it I will probably have a configuration where the user can decide which frame type should be omitted/included, not just flats.

EDIT:  I also like the -stack- feature S3igell suggested.

Regards,

[Mike]

On 2/24/2015 at 2:17 PM, s3igell said:

One can, and probably SHOULD, always use a Red Screen App (BackyardRED) or even Better a Rubylith Red Filter over their Laptop whenever out in the Field.  Failing that, one can simply Click the FilmStrip (Thumbnail) Icon in order to suppress the FilmStrip full of bright Flats, and can rattle off a quick Snap Exposure in order to dismiss the Current Image from the main Image Center display.

That said, I'd further the Suggestion by adding that the FilmStrip should have an Option to display ONLY Light (and Unclassified / Preview) Frames.

Or BYE could "Stack" all the Calibration Frames into a single FilmStrip Image (with a Frame Counter), as no one really wants/needs to "Inspect" each individual Bias or Flat or Dark.  Nor does listing a series of 30+ Lights in the FilmStrip as Individual Images do anything but push the last Light Frame so far down the FilmStrip as to never be seen again...

I use Backyard Red on my 24" monitor and my laptop has red plexi and is inside an opaque light and dew shield. Still, flats are pretty bright.

Thanks Guylain, I'd love some options about what to display.