I originally posted this on the Cloudy Nights forum in the thread "ASIStudio New Release" and is a comment to ZWO's thoughts about needing to do star analysis / plate-solving (#2 in the quoted response from 23 Nov 2020)
ASIStudio, on 23 Nov 2020 - 10:51 PM, said:
We plan to push out the manual in v1.4 this year.
1)it's a known problem that the undo button is invaild because of property.There are two temporary solutions, you can run ASILive as an administrator or reinstall ASIStudio in a non-system path(disk C is the system disk usually).
2)Your suggestion is wonderful, but first we must add the function of star analysis like Air pro,it's complex and we need a lot of time to complete.We have no plans in the short term.
Thank you.Kind regard.
I'd like to followup on alphatripleplus' #2 about naming with a suggestion that doesn't involve star analysis. It's not so complicated that it would need a lot of work and is perhaps what alphatripleplus was thinking about in the original suggestion.
Right now ASILive names saved files in this format:
Light_Stack{number of frames}{contents of what I typed into ASILive's Target field under the Stack section}_{exposure settings} _{date and timestamp}
For example, if I entered "Alcyone_AT80_0.8_UVIR" into the Target field, ASILive would save a set of 10 by 60sec subs, high gain, bin 1 exposures with camera temperature of 0C as:
Light_Stack_10frames_Alcyone_AT80_0.8_UVIR_60sec_Bin1_0.0C_gain300_2021-11-01_001652
Would it be possible to add a settings option so that I can ask ASILive to save the file with the Target field contents at the beginning of the filename instead of in the middle? With this option enabled, ASILive would save the file under this name:
Alcyone_AT80_0.8_UVIR_Light_Stack_10frames_60sec_Bin1_0.0C_gain300_2021-11-01_001652
Since this option doesn't currently exist, I manually rename the FIT & JPG pair of files and while doing this I also replace *frames_ with an 'x' so the example becomes:
Alcyone_AT80_0.8_UVIR_Light_Stack_10x60sec_Bin1_0.0C_gain300_2021-11-01_001652
Benefits:
- Individuals can then use the Target field to organize images in a scheme of their own choosing. For example, some might want to group first by telescope configuration, then astronomical target (i.e., AT80_0.8_UVIR_Alcyone)
- Shortening the "10frames_60sec" to "10x60sec" frees up a few more characters in the filename that I can use (I actually also remove "Light_Stack" during my manual rename but I can see arguments for leaving that in so this isn't part of my suggestion). I do realize the maximum length limit is filesystem dependent and can be quite generous. 10x60sec, though, seems to be the more common way I've seen how astrophotographers say they've taken ten subs of 60sec each.
I can't imagine that implementing this option would require a lot of additional coding (having done programming myself) and it would default back to the filename beginning with "Light_Stack" if the Target field were empty.
Thanks for considering my suggestion!
