WBPP interactive frame selection: tracking included frames for Astrobin uploads

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Niels_L avatar

I used the new interactive mode for frame selection in WBPP and it works great. It is easy to see what should be rejected in your light frames and what to include. It saves the hassle of getting into SubFrameSelector and making a copy of the selected frames (to delete them after stacking again).
The only thing is that when I want to upload my final image to Astrobin, I am now missing the data of which frames were included in the stack… For example, in my interactive frame selection step during WBPP, I have rejected about half the light frames into the final stack - I just don’t know which days/files I rejected. Does anyone have this solved in their pre-processing workflow?

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Brian Puhl avatar

WBPP creates subfolders for calibrated, cosmeticized, and registered.

All the files that end up in the final image will be in the registered folder.

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Niels_L avatar

Brian Puhl · Feb 1, 2026 at 03:42 PM

WBPP creates subfolders for calibrated, cosmeticized, and registered.

All the files that end up in the final image will be in the registered folder.

That’s right, how did I not think of that… 🤣

Quinn Groessl avatar

It’d be nice if this was its own process and you could move files like blink. I haven’t used it yet, but watched Adam Block’s video on it and the interface looks pretty good.

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Quinn Groessl · Feb 1, 2026 at 05:55 PM

It’d be nice if this was its own process and you could move files like blink. I haven’t used it yet, but watched Adam Block’s video on it and the interface looks pretty good.

Frame selector in WBPP works well. It is kinda the same as SFS. So I always blink first and then either SFS or Frame Selector in WBPP.

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Niels_L · Feb 1, 2026 at 06:45 PM

Frame selector in WBPP works well.

It looks like it does, but it’ll make my file structure a bit harder to manage once I start using it.

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Quinn Groessl · Feb 1, 2026 at 06:46 PM

Niels_L · Feb 1, 2026 at 06:45 PM

Frame selector in WBPP works well.

It looks like it does, but it’ll make my file structure a bit harder to manage once I start using it.

I had the same, that’s why I was confused on what lights end up in the final image. But the Frame Selector in WBPP saves some extra files that I normally copy from SFS. Now, I just have to check the WBPP registered folder and divide the number of files by 3… Lol

Same same, but different 😂

Steven Zuhoski avatar

I have used it on 3 or 4 images now and it works well but I need a way to remove outliers other than visual (±3 sigma or something).

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Steven Zuhoski · Feb 2, 2026, 01:56 AM

I have used it on 3 or 4 images now and it works well but I need a way to remove outliers other than visual (±3 sigma or something).

I am using it, but I prefer the graph that is on the original SFS. On a small monitor, it is hard to see the graphs. I would like to see a toggle button on each graph that would let you see a single graph with a larger view.

Niels_L avatar

Let’s hope they will still improve on the options ;-)

AstroDarks avatar

Check your logs folder. The log file will tell you how many lights were stacked.

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