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ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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0001927 | CCdciel | General | public | 18-04-09 21:09 | 18-04-16 23:02 |
Reporter | Thomas Jaeger | Assigned To | Patrick Chevalley | ||
Priority | normal | Severity | tweak | Reproducibility | random |
Status | resolved | Resolution | fixed | ||
Platform | PC | OS | Linux Mint | OS Version | 18.3 |
Product Version | 0.9 | ||||
Target Version | 1.0 | ||||
Summary | 0001927: Autofocus canceled because no star was found | ||||
Description | Focuser calibration tool was a great progress in CCDCiel. This session started with an already calibrated focuser. My telescope is a very fast 12" f/4 Newton and a ZWO ASI183 with very high quantum efficiency and very tiny pixels. All stars are huge oversampled. I started with a 2s exposure at 2x2 binning for autofocus, this is more than enough with my old software SGP. Autofocus failed. I was on the notebook and had to double integration time to success >>> 2018-04-07T22:05:02.850 Take control exposure for 4.0 seconds The sequence started a further autofocus and it failed. I saw many stars (rings in my case) on the screen, but CCDCiel did not recognized it. I have tried it two times more, no success. But I saw many stars on the screen !!! >>> 2018-04-07T22:39:50.318 Autofocus start Dynamic curve Was there a change in autofocus star detection to this version? Further in the night it worked better. I assume there was a better star signal to background ratio. Next time this happens, should I save a focus image as fits? Thomas | ||||
Tags | autofocus | ||||
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Yes, there was a lot of change in the star detection function for this version and I have one more change for the next version. Also with the next version it will automatically save the image if it cannot detect the stars so we can work on them to improve the detection. With the last version the focuser calibration suggest a smaller movement for the dynamic focus to work with less defocused stars so it accept shorter exposure time. You can make test with that, now for dynamic focus the maximum HFD only need to be 2x or 2.5x the focus HFD. If the stars are oversampled it is also important that the star detection window (in Preference/Focus) is big enough. It must be at least 4x the defocused ring diameter multiplied by the binning. You can test with a defocused image by using the "Image inspection" button. Now this function use exactly the same method as the autofocus. I try to make a new version with the last changes tomorrow. |
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I see now the screen shot with your other issue showing the result of a dynamic focus. You can try to multiply the value for "Movement between points" by 0.7 to make the maximum HFD only 8 instead of 12. This can help with low SNR stars. |
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Thanks for the reply. I am the opinion, that If I see a star clearly on the screen, than it must be recognized by the software. There is room for further development. CCDCiel is getting better an better. I like the way it goes. Next session I will run an new focuser calibration and check the size of the star detection window again. I may give you feedback again. Thanks |
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The difficulty is to adjust the star detection level from the noise. This is very dependent of the camera and at the moment the level is a bit high to not make false detection with noisy sensor like in the asi1600. So I am very interested if you can send me some fits file with a defocused image you see stars but ccdciel do not detect them. |
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You wrote >If the stars are oversampled it is also important that the star detection window (in Preference/Focus) > is big enough. It must be at least 4x the defocused ring diameter multiplied by the binning. I have checked this. My data for the detection window was 320/1000px this should be enough. The weather forecast for tomorow is good. I will make a new focuser calibration and do a screenshoots if this problem occurs again. Thomas |
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A too big window can be problematic too because this make difficult to isolate a star. A good value is the maximum HFD you want to measure multiplied by 4 and multiplied by the binning. For example to reach HFD=20 with binning 2x2 : star detection window = 20*4*2 = 160 With Han we make a few improvement in the star detection this last days: 0001931 and 0001934 I just make a new version 0.9.34 so we can test this if the weather go better this week. |
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I have updated and have reduced the detection window to 160. Looking forward to test the new version and image M98 tomorrow if the weather got fine. Thanks - Thomas |
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Suddenly it cleared here in Nürnberg. I ran a new focuser calibration with success. The reduced dection window worked also. The star detection routine seems to be more sensitive, this is great. I use dynamic autofocus at the moment imaging M82 Thanks for all - Thomas |
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This look good! I think I can close this issue. If you have problem in the future be sure to look at the .config/ccdciel/Log/ directory for the failed focus images to send me an example. Good imaging for tonight! |
Date Modified | Username | Field | Change |
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18-04-09 21:09 | Thomas Jaeger | New Issue | |
18-04-09 21:09 | Thomas Jaeger | Tag Attached: autofocus | |
18-04-09 21:38 | Patrick Chevalley | Assigned To | => Patrick Chevalley |
18-04-09 21:38 | Patrick Chevalley | Status | new => assigned |
18-04-09 21:38 | Patrick Chevalley | Target Version | => 1.0 |
18-04-09 21:38 | Patrick Chevalley | Note Added: 0004663 | |
18-04-09 21:39 | Patrick Chevalley | Note Edited: 0004663 | |
18-04-09 21:52 | Patrick Chevalley | Note Added: 0004665 | |
18-04-10 20:12 | Thomas Jaeger | Note Added: 0004671 | |
18-04-11 11:59 | Patrick Chevalley | Note Added: 0004680 | |
18-04-15 21:40 | Thomas Jaeger | Note Added: 0004719 | |
18-04-16 14:44 | Patrick Chevalley | Note Added: 0004720 | |
18-04-16 18:39 | Thomas Jaeger | Note Added: 0004721 | |
18-04-16 22:22 | Thomas Jaeger | File Added: Bildschirmfoto vom 2018-04-16 21-35-50.png | |
18-04-16 22:22 | Thomas Jaeger | Note Added: 0004723 | |
18-04-16 23:02 | Patrick Chevalley | Status | assigned => resolved |
18-04-16 23:02 | Patrick Chevalley | Resolution | open => fixed |
18-04-16 23:02 | Patrick Chevalley | Note Added: 0004726 |