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[prookyon]

I'm wondering is there some software that would have good support for logging my narrowband imaging sessions?

I have tried some solutions for enetering your sessions etc. but what they all seem to lack is:

• Some way I could enter my image counts and exposure times and it would calculate the total exposure time for that session (yes, I can do that with calculator, but what are computers for then )
• Some way of seeing how much total exposure time I have over all sessions for each object taking into account the filter used.

 

I did a small test in Excel with pivot tables and what I am looking to get is something like:

Here I have selected one object out of all I have observed and I can clearly see the exposure times per filter (summed for all sessions for that object)

 

Another view I experimented with:

Here I can see all objects I have entered with again the cumulative per-filter exposure times nicely visible.

 

I can of course just use this - but it's Excel and I thought maybe there is something better out there.

[klangwolke]

Take a look at Lumidex https://github.com/alexhelms/lumidex
It’s an open source indexing application in python which uses a sql database in the background and is capable of extracting all kinds of information from the fits headers really, really, really fast.

[prookyon]

Thanks for mentioning Lumidex - I actually tried it once.

It certainly can sum the exposures nicely, the main issue is that it is purely files based so I would have to rearrange my files so that I could point it to some folder that does not contain anything besides raw exposures.

But certainly one of the closest options to what I want

[gordtulloch]

Take a look at Lumidex https://github.com/alexhelms/lumidex
It’s an open source indexing application in python which uses a sql database in the background and is capable of extracting all kinds of information from the fits headers really, really, really fast.

Wow this is very close to where I want to go with my astrofiler software but it's Windows/Mac only alas

[klangwolke]

Cool, will check out Astrofiler tonight!

[nou]

Or you can try my program that have scripting support and can read FITS and XISF metadata.

 

https://www.cloudyni...dex-and-search/

[gordtulloch]

Wow this is very close to where I want to go with my astrofiler software but it's Windows/Mac only alas

FYI I've been working on a GUI version that should be out by end of July for Linux, Windows, Mac. Repo is: https://github.com/g.../astrofiler-gui.

 

I just have to implement the Session functions to link lights with calibration files in the repository so you can download everything to a temp folder for image processing. XISF support, tight integration with Google Cloud Services (live backup and just-in-time restore of files) and auto-calibration in future versions. Astrofiler is not an image viewer (and in fact uses an external image viewer like ASIFitsView) but is focused on image repository management.

[MikeECha]

I'm wondering is there some software that would have good support for logging my narrowband imaging sessions?

I have tried some solutions for enetering your sessions etc. but what they all seem to lack is:

• Some way I could enter my image counts and exposure times and it would calculate the total exposure time for that session (yes, I can do that with calculator, but what are computers for then )
• Some way of seeing how much total exposure time I have over all sessions for each object taking into account the filter used.

 

I did a small test in Excel with pivot tables and what I am looking to get is something like:

obs_1.PNG

Here I have selected one object out of all I have observed and I can clearly see the exposure times per filter (summed for all sessions for that object)

 

Another view I experimented with:

obs_2.PNG

Here I can see all objects I have entered with again the cumulative per-filter exposure times nicely visible.

 

I can of course just use this - but it's Excel and I thought maybe there is something better out there.

If you use NINA, check out a plugin called Target Scheduler. I does what you want and a lot more. There is a 4-video series in YT by the developer. See if that amount of automation is for you. I use it and love it.