2026-04-22, 03:54 PM
(This post was last modified: 2026-04-22, 03:56 PM by theskyhound.)
Hello Roy,
Several thoughts: there isn't any need to customize for each filter unless you are going to force the total exposure time, SNR, or some other aspect of one of two filters to be different from the rest. It doesn't sound like you needed to do that. Also, I'm confused about the sub exposures you chose. It sounds like you forced the sub exposure time to one minute for all filters, and then allowed all of the filters to use auto? I would think you would want one or the other. So lets talk about how this works: the settings on the left are usually all you need, as mentioned before. The sub exposure time is best left at auto, unless you want to force it, maybe by not having time to align the mount. But that would apply equally to all filters, so just force the sub exposure time on the left for all of them. If your practical limit is always 1 minute, then consider making this the maximum allowed exposure in the settings for this system. The main reason to customize some filters is if you want to use a different binning, or exposure goal for some filters. Maybe you want binx1 for the wide band filters, and binx2 for the narrow band. Or you can't reach an SNR of 30 for one or more filters (as set globally on the left) so you lower it to 20 for them. When you customize a filter it should automatically adopt the settings on the left for sub exposure time as the default.
This is the first I have heard of an integration with SGPro. I created a generic export format in the hope that they and others might support it. They had substantial roadblocks in their way, so I wasn't sure it was going to happen. I'm glad to hear that it did. But I don't know anything about how they implemented it.
You are correct that Auto should have worked properly, so I suspect a bug. Might be in SkyTools. Might be in the export file. Might be in SGPro. If you could share the export file that you are creating for SGPro, that would help me better see where the problem lies.
Several thoughts: there isn't any need to customize for each filter unless you are going to force the total exposure time, SNR, or some other aspect of one of two filters to be different from the rest. It doesn't sound like you needed to do that. Also, I'm confused about the sub exposures you chose. It sounds like you forced the sub exposure time to one minute for all filters, and then allowed all of the filters to use auto? I would think you would want one or the other. So lets talk about how this works: the settings on the left are usually all you need, as mentioned before. The sub exposure time is best left at auto, unless you want to force it, maybe by not having time to align the mount. But that would apply equally to all filters, so just force the sub exposure time on the left for all of them. If your practical limit is always 1 minute, then consider making this the maximum allowed exposure in the settings for this system. The main reason to customize some filters is if you want to use a different binning, or exposure goal for some filters. Maybe you want binx1 for the wide band filters, and binx2 for the narrow band. Or you can't reach an SNR of 30 for one or more filters (as set globally on the left) so you lower it to 20 for them. When you customize a filter it should automatically adopt the settings on the left for sub exposure time as the default.
This is the first I have heard of an integration with SGPro. I created a generic export format in the hope that they and others might support it. They had substantial roadblocks in their way, so I wasn't sure it was going to happen. I'm glad to hear that it did. But I don't know anything about how they implemented it.
You are correct that Auto should have worked properly, so I suspect a bug. Might be in SkyTools. Might be in the export file. Might be in SGPro. If you could share the export file that you are creating for SGPro, that would help me better see where the problem lies.
Clear skies,
Greg
Head Dude at Skyhound
Greg
Head Dude at Skyhound