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I copied it from the forum and then typed into my text editor and doubly reviewed it which I will do again as you say it runs. As of earlier this week while imaging I noted a rather reasonable pause using AA6 and Phd2 even without this script in a non hyperstar setup. I first became concerned when I...

Sorry but do you really need a script to so simple imaging task ? And so that dithering works with a pause ?
You could do just with normal AA imaging procedure and let it take care of dithering.
Besides now that AA7 has some sequencing properties.
But if it's just scripting exercise I understand.

Did you copy and past it from the forum into the script window? If not you may have typed it in with an error! I ran it with the camera simulator in AA7 and AA6 and it works fine. What ver. are you using?

I tried you little script. It fails on line 4. I have no idea why. It's a formatting issue I think. I tried fiddling with this, but have not worked out something that will work. Now I will be going to the library hoping to find some old books of basic. Two nights ago while imaging I noted a greater ...

I do that just for the output format, it places a space between the image name and sequence #. Without them the image would be titled M20003.fit instead of M20 003.fit

Iver; thanks I'll give it a try to night or tomorrow and report back by
Friday.
A question of ignorance: what do the quotation marks do? what is supposed to appear between the two quotes : filename=image+" "?

Give this a try, I don't code either!

for i = 1 to 5
dir = "c:\Temp\"
image = "M20"
fileName = image + " " + Format (i,"000")+ ".fit"
camera.start(10)
camera.wait
Image.Save (dir + fileName)
Pause(10)
next i


Iver

I have tried to make a script to get the camera to pause a bit while phd resets; the following works to allow a 10 second pause but will not save images to my directory; I am not a programmer by any means; dir$="c:\Temp\" imag$="m20" for i=1 to 5 camera.start(10) camera.wait Image.save("c:\autosave\...

Does anyone know of a source that, in depth, describes the AA script commands? The AA7 manual lists many commands that I don't know how to use.

I found this: http://sintiniobservatory.interfree.it/ ... ns_ing.pdf
But this is from AA4 and a lot of commands has since been added.

Thanks Fabio,

That worked well.

Hi, not directly. You could enable the option "Demosaic on load" so that the images are demosaiced when you open them with the command: Image.Open If this is a single task, another solution is to convert (and debayer) all your images to FITS before running the script, using the option "Save all imag...

Hi,

I am writing a script, that processes a bunch of fits files. They need to be saved as *.png.
Since the fits files originates from a Canon DSLR, I need to debayer the fits before saving as png.
Is that possible with AA7 scripting?