Separate VCurves for each filter?

[Bill McLaughlin]

The following plan was run last night but instead of generating Green, Red, and Blue after the darks, it generated only Green (20 images, to be exact - I aborted it before dawn). It seemed to be trying to do multiple sets of 8 Green images. Due to poor seeing the images were all crap anyway but why did it do all Green?

I am guessing it was the #count 8 that was in there for the starting darks? If this is the case, I assume one would just put #count 1 in at the end of the starting dark run to reset the count (after #dark). Would that work and, if so, why does Planner not do that automatically? Maybe one could use #repeat instead of #count for the starting darks instead? In fact, would that not be a better way for Planner to handle darks? If not, why not?

If this cause is correct, this seems to make it unwise to set up darks at the beginning of a run using Planner. Could the way planner handles darks be changed so this does not happen?

Plan:


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; This plan was generated by ACP Planner 4.1.1
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; For: Bill
; Targets: 3
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; NOTE: Timing features are disabled
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; Autofocus at start of run.
; Autofocus every 60 minutes.
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#autofocus
#afinterval 60
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; === Target Dark (4x900sec@bin1) ===
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#count 8
#interval 900
#binning 1
#dark
;
; === Target SH2-136 RGB ===
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; WARNING: Folder path is not portable.
#dir E:\2010 Astro Data\Sh2-136\Night Nine RGB ; Images forced to go into this folder
#dither ; Automatic dithering
;
#interval 900
#binning 1
#repeat 6
#posang 231.6
#filter Green
SH2-136 RGB 21:15:45.55 68° 19' 20.7"
;
#interval 900
#binning 1
#repeat 8
#posang 231.6
#autofocus ; Per-filter autofocus
#filter Red
SH2-136 RGB 21:15:45.55 68° 19' 20.7"
;
#interval 900
#binning 1
#repeat 6
#posang 231.6
#autofocus ; Per-filter autofocus
#filter Blue
SH2-136 RGB 21:15:45.55 68° 19' 20.7"
#dir ; Revert to default images folder
#dither 0 ; Disable dithering
;
; === Target Dark (4x900sec@bin1) ===
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#count 4
#interval 900
#binning 1
#dark
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; END OF PLAN
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