<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <title>Dark correction (dialog) — C-Munipack 2.0.8 documentation</title> <link rel="stylesheet" href="_static/default.css" type="text/css" /> <link rel="stylesheet" href="_static/pygments.css" type="text/css" /> <script type="text/javascript"> var DOCUMENTATION_OPTIONS = { URL_ROOT: '', VERSION: '2.0.8', COLLAPSE_INDEX: false, FILE_SUFFIX: '.html', HAS_SOURCE: true }; </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="_static/jquery.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="_static/underscore.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="_static/doctools.js"></script> <link rel="top" title="C-Munipack 2.0.8 documentation" href="index.html" /> <link rel="up" title="Dialogs and tools" href="dialogs.html" /> <link rel="next" title="Environment options (dialog)" href="environment_options_dialog.html" /> <link rel="prev" title="Choose stars (dialog)" href="choose_stars_dialog.html" /> </head> <body> <div class="related"> <h3>Navigation</h3> <ul> <li class="right" style="margin-right: 10px"> <a href="genindex.html" title="General Index" accesskey="I">index</a></li> <li class="right" > <a href="environment_options_dialog.html" title="Environment options (dialog)" accesskey="N">next</a> |</li> <li class="right" > <a href="choose_stars_dialog.html" title="Choose stars (dialog)" accesskey="P">previous</a> |</li> <li><a href="index.html">C-Munipack 2.0.8 documentation</a> »</li> <li><a href="using_muniwin.html" >Using Muniwin</a> »</li> <li><a href="dialogs.html" accesskey="U">Dialogs and tools</a> »</li> </ul> </div> <div class="document"> <div class="documentwrapper"> <div class="bodywrapper"> <div class="body"> <div class="section" id="dark-correction-dialog"> <span id="index-0"></span><span id="id1"></span><h1>Dark correction (dialog)<a class="headerlink" href="#dark-correction-dialog" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1> <p>The “Dark correction” dialog is used to select a dark frame during the calibration of the source files. The dark-frame calibration is used in the standard and the advanced calibration scheme.</p> <div class="section" id="activating-the-dialog"> <h2>Activating the dialog<a class="headerlink" href="#activating-the-dialog" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2> <p>The dialog can be activated:</p> <ol class="arabic simple"> <li>from the main menu: <em class="menuselection">Reduce ‣ Dark correction</em>.</li> <li>from the main toolbar: <img alt="darkcorr_icon" src="_images/darkcorr.png" /></li> </ol> </div> <div class="section" id="file-browsing"> <h2>File browsing<a class="headerlink" href="#file-browsing" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2> <div class="figure align-center"> <img alt="Dark correction dialog" src="_images/darkcorr_couts.png" /> <p class="caption">The dialog for selecting a dark frame</p> </div> <p>The button “Type a file name” (1) shows and hides the “Location” text box. The keyboard shortcut Ctrl+L key combination does the same action.</p> <p>In the “Location” text box (2) you can type a path to a file. If you don’t type any path, the name of the selected file will be displayed. You can also type the first letters of the name: it will be auto-completed and a list of file names beginning with these letters will be displayed.</p> <p>(3) The path to the current folder is displayed. You can navigate along this path by clicking on an element.</p> <p>(4) Here, you can access to your main folders and to your store devices.</p> <p>(5) Here, you can add bookmarks to folders, by using the “Add” or the “Add to Bookmarks” option you get by right-clicking a folder in the central panel, and also remove them.</p> <p>The contents of the selected folder is displayed here (6). Change your current folder by double left clicking on a folder in this panel. Select a file with a single left click. You can start the operation by clicking on the Execute button or by a double left click on a file. Right-clicking a folder name opens a context menu.</p> <p>If the selected file is a file recognized by the C-Munipack, the preview and short info is displayed in the right part of the dialog (7). Double click on the preview to show a larger preview in a separate dialog.</p> <p>(8) y clicking the Add button, you add the selected folder to bookmarks.</p> <p>By clicking the Remove, you remove the selected bookmark from the list.</p> <p>(9) It is possible to apply the operation on all source files in the project or on the files that are currently selected in the table of input files.</p> </div> <div class="section" id="applying-the-dark-correction"> <span id="index-1"></span><h2>Applying the dark correction<a class="headerlink" href="#applying-the-dark-correction" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2> <p>Click the “Execute” button (10) to start the operation. The dark correction is applied to a working copy of source files. The working copy is replaced by corrected frames.</p> <ul class="simple"> <li>A working copy of source frame must be made before the dark correction.</li> <li>In the advanced calibration scheme, the bias correction must be applied before the dark correction.</li> <li>If the dark correction has been applied to the source frame already, you can skip it. (Some camera controlling software does it automatically.)</li> <li>The dark correction can be applied to each frame only once.</li> <li>The dark correction must be applied before the flat correction and the photometry.</li> </ul> <p>If you make a mistake, you can revoke the step by making a fresh copy of source frames by means of the “Fetch/convert files” function.</p> <div class="admonition-see-also admonition seealso"> <p class="first admonition-title">See also</p> <p class="last"><a class="reference internal" href="main_window.html#main-window"><em>Main window</em></a>, <a class="reference internal" href="master_dark_frame_dialog.html#master-dark-frame-dialog"><em>Master dark frame (dialog)</em></a>, <a class="reference internal" href="advanced_calibration.html#advanced-calibration-scheme"><em>Advanced calibration scheme</em></a></p> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="sphinxsidebar"> <div class="sphinxsidebarwrapper"> <h3><a href="index.html">Table Of Contents</a></h3> <ul> <li><a class="reference internal" href="#">Dark correction (dialog)</a><ul> <li><a class="reference internal" href="#activating-the-dialog">Activating the dialog</a></li> <li><a class="reference internal" href="#file-browsing">File browsing</a></li> <li><a class="reference internal" href="#applying-the-dark-correction">Applying the dark correction</a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> <h4>Previous topic</h4> <p class="topless"><a href="choose_stars_dialog.html" title="previous chapter">Choose stars (dialog)</a></p> <h4>Next topic</h4> <p class="topless"><a href="environment_options_dialog.html" title="next chapter">Environment options (dialog)</a></p> <div id="searchbox" style="display: none"> <h3>Quick search</h3> <form class="search" action="search.html" method="get"> <input type="text" name="q" /> <input type="submit" value="Go" /> <input type="hidden" name="check_keywords" value="yes" /> <input type="hidden" name="area" value="default" /> </form> <p class="searchtip" style="font-size: 90%"> Enter search terms or a module, class or function name. </p> </div> <script type="text/javascript">$('#searchbox').show(0);</script> </div> </div> <div class="clearer"></div> </div> <div class="related"> <h3>Navigation</h3> <ul> <li class="right" style="margin-right: 10px"> <a href="genindex.html" title="General Index" >index</a></li> <li class="right" > <a href="environment_options_dialog.html" title="Environment options (dialog)" >next</a> |</li> <li class="right" > <a href="choose_stars_dialog.html" title="Choose stars (dialog)" >previous</a> |</li> <li><a href="index.html">C-Munipack 2.0.8 documentation</a> »</li> <li><a href="using_muniwin.html" >Using Muniwin</a> »</li> <li><a href="dialogs.html" >Dialogs and tools</a> »</li> </ul> </div> <div class="footer"> © Copyright 2012, David Motl. 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