Master file FITS header tags no longer contain HISTORY lines ?

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AstroRBA avatar
Good Day all,

I've noticed that the Fits Header, as generated by Pixinsight for light masters, no longer contains all of the tags that used to appear under "HISTORY" which included entries such as number of integrated frames etc. This absence seems to have occured with one of the previous few updates. Has anyone else noticed this or know of the reason why? And/or, is there somewhere else now that one can revisit these items other than saving the log files. I usually just delete everthing except the light masters and these history tags were a good way of revisiting the number of frames etc. 

Thanks!
André Irgang avatar
I've noticed the same here. I used to get te total stacked frames from it, but the info is not there where it used to be.
Loran Hughes avatar
You can still find that info in the History Explorer. Not quite as easy as pulling it up in the FITS header, but it's still there. https://pixinsight.com/forum/index.php?threads/fits-header-change-in-wbp-2-8-4-over-2-8-2.25639/#post-170285

Loran
AstroRBA avatar
Loran Hughes:
You can still find that info in the History Explorer. Not quite as easy as pulling it up in the FITS header, but it's still there. https://pixinsight.com/forum/index.php?threads/fits-header-change-in-wbp-2-8-4-over-2-8-2.25639/#post-170285

Loran

Many thanks for that! 

It makes project management much more convenient to have a quick spot to remember the frame count .. !
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