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StarTrail Creation (PRO) |
  
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StarTrail Creation (PRO) |
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The star trail creation function allows the creation of an image constructed by stacking multiple converted images to form star trails. Star trail images can be created in two ways:
| • | Automatically at the end of a night once all images from that night have been converted. Settings can be found in 'Auto Content Creation' section of the settings. |
| • | Manually by using the controls on the 'Utilities' tab. See here for details. |
Auto Star Trail Creation
Once all images for a night have been processed the auto star trail creation function will automatically create the image file and save, or if desired, upload it via FTP transfer Please note that the video can only be created if:
| • | The 'Image Conversion' process has created jpg or png images for the night i.e. the image conversion function must be active |
| • | The acquisition mode is set to 'Night Time' or 'Fixed Time'. Auto video creation is not available for 'Continuous' acquisition mode. |
Auto star trail creation settings
| • | Star Trail Start-time Offset: The number of minutes after imaging start from which images should be used for the star trail creation function. Ensure this offset puts star trail creation into proper hours of darkness. |
| • | Star Trail End-time Offset: The number of minutes before imaging end at which images should no longer be used for the star trail creation function. Ensure this offset puts star trail creation into proper hours of darkness. |
| • | Transfer Star Trail via FTP: f ticked the star trail image will be transferred via ftp |
| • | New File Name: The name of the image file that should be created (no extension) |
| • | Add Date Info to StarTrail Filename: If ticked then each save/uploaded dile name will be appended with a datetime stamp. |
| • | Output File Type: The image type the image should be created as i.e. jpg or png |
| • | Jpg Quality: If output type is jpg, set the jpg quality here |
| • | If 'DELETE Star Trail File After FTP Transfer' is ticked then the file will be deleted from the local computer after the ftp transfer has finished. |
Common Settings
Two settings are shared between auto video and auto star trail creation:
| • | 'Target/Save' Folder: The folder the created video or star trail image should be saved to. If left empty, the video will be created in the same folder the input images are located in. |
| • | If 'Delete Converted Images' is ticked, all image files that have been used in the creation of the video/star trail will be deleted once the process is complete |