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A very quick update to the Nastronomy

smart telescope pre-processing script. A

few days ago, we released version 2.0.3

that included a very new feature that

saves time and space for your computer,

which is the ability for the script to

use compression. And that resulted in

some issues with people who either had

the script crash on them or maybe they

accidentally killed the script or they

killed the script on purpose because

when the script starts it sets the

compression to be on and then by the

time it finishes at the end it turns it

off. So if you don't let it finish if it

doesn't get to the last step for one

reason or another it stays on until you

turn it off manually. So in version

2.0.4 it's now an option. So now use

compression is a checkbox. So if you

turn it on, it'll use compression and

then it'll turn off by the end. But the

thing to keep in mind is that if you do

use compression and then serial crashes

or the script crashes or something

happens and you have to kill the script,

compression will still be on if it

doesn't completely finish. So, if that

happens, the what you need to do is go

to preferences

under fits options on the left side and

you'll see a fits compression section

here and you check it from enabled. Set

it to none and then it'll no longer be

compressed. So, I'll show you what I

mean. So, I have this here. So, I'm

using compression right now. My

compression is currently off.

And I'm going to click on run. And it

was going to delete my old process

directory. So while it deletes it, I'm

actually going to click here, stop, and

then stop the Python script from

running. So let's let it finish. There

you go. So there you go. It failed to

send response because it didn't finish.

So if I look at my working directory

here in the process, you'll see that I

have fits.fz file. So the fc is the

compression file extension. And if I go

to serial and I look at preferences,

you'll see that fits is now enabled. So

if this happens, just click on none and

then re or disable it.

But the other enhancement that I made

here is so if I go back to my working

directory, if I turn on the script,

which again is go to pre-processing

smart telescope pp.py, if I run this

again without checking this box, like I,

you know, so for some reason compression

didn't work, and I forgot to turn off

preferences. If this stays unchecked,

it'll actually

So I'm going to kill this again. Stop.

If I go into preferences, it actually

turned it off, right? So, I made it so

that if you run the script with it

checked, it'll turn it on. If you run it

with without it being checked, it'll

turn it off. So, I'm hoping that'll

clear up some confusion. But again, it's

really good to know how to turn it off

and on manually. Um, and as always,

thanks to the people who have reported

it. Thanks to Rich from Deep Stay Aster

from saying that people are reaching out

to him for support on this as well. I

had two people between yesterday and

today say that hey you know the the

compression never turned off. So yes if

the compression if the script doesn't

finish it won't turn off. Just wanted to

let you know. The other thing I it's a

minor fix to this is if I run the script

again in version 2.0.2 I made it so that

if you selected Celestron Origin SPCC

was disabled. I accidentally

undid that work in version 2.0.3 because

of uh logic somewhere. So now it's fixed

again in version 2.0.4. So if you're

using Celestron Origin, you cannot do

SBCC just because it allows multiple

cameras and it's just it just becomes me

reinventing the wheel. So it doesn't

take much longer to just go to image

processing, color calibration, spectra

photoometric color calibration, and just

doing it manually.

And it's a post-processing step anyway.

This is a pre-processing script. But

anyways, thanks to all of my Patreons,

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you all and until next time, clear

skies.