smart project builder - odd results

[theresamarie11]

Hello and welcome!

So, that's a lot to breakdown. Lets start with opening the SPB.

When I right-click on a target in the Target Selection Tool and select Smart Project Builder, the following default values are adopted: Imaging System, Location, and focal changer. I suppose the binning should also be inherited from the Target Selection Tool, but that's a special case. I'm still on the fence on that one because the way its used on the SPB is different from the Target Selection.

The other selections are going to depend on what you want to do, so they do start with default values, starting with the Purpose and mode. There is no context to inherit for these things. I experimented with having them default to the last values used, but that doesn't really solve the problem unless you only do one very narrow type of imaging. Maybe it would make sense for some people. I am awaiting feedback on that.

So why didn't you inherit the values from the Target Selection Tool? Did you use a right-click on a target to open it? If so, I think this may be an indication of wider problems. In fact, looking at your other issues, it appears that a lot of things are broken. I suspect that there is an incorrect setting in your location of imaging system. This is common when people are first starting out, because there are a lot of things to input, and it may not be clear when you are first inputting them what effect they are going to have later.

Lets start with your location: a common mistake is to reverse the latitude and longitude or to have the longitude switched from east to west or vice versa, so please check that. One quick way to spot problems with the location is to look at the graphic at the top of the Target Selection tool. The dark period of the night should be centered near midnight.

Please upload screen captures of your camera settings so I can check them. Once we have everything set up properly, we can talk about suitable test subjects.

Hi, Thank you for the fast reply.   You were certainly right about the location being wrong, not swapped latitude and longitude but an extra '3' in front of my latitude making it 374 instead of 74.   I guess that'll mess things up.

You know I've been building lists of objects for 2 locations, my home in Vermont and the Winter Star Party in Florida, where I'm heading.  And I was right clicking to look at the smart project builder recommendations or at least thought I was.  After fixing latitude, I noticed that I was back to default location, and scope, etc.  So not sure when that changed.    I reset to my location in the target selection tool and did a right click from Target selection to enter the smart project builder and it does start out with the location as it was in target selection.   So not sure, maybe operator error here.

A couple of screen shots attached on location and camera parameters.   I use a common camera, so most data was right out of your database, except one of the gains was incorrect.   And I swore I added dark current but it's a super small number, so maybe it's just for all intents and purposes zero.