¿Do you use dark-flats in WBPP?

Dark flats get loaded with the darks in WBPP.  However, you don’t need both bias frames and dark flat frames.  Use one or the other.  I never heard of using both.

Jérémie:
Yes, I use both.
The way to do it is : upload all your Darks in the Darks tab, then on the Calibration tab, you can select each serie of images you imported, and on the right side let Pixinsight choose automatically its Darks, or select the serie manually.

Interesting, why use both bias and dark flats?

Bruce Donzanti:

Jérémie:
Yes, I use both.
The way to do it is : upload all your Darks in the Darks tab, then on the Calibration tab, you can select each serie of images you imported, and on the right side let Pixinsight choose automatically its Darks, or select the serie manually.

Interesting, why use both bias and dark flats?

I don't take Bias.

I use Darks for everything : Bias is included in the Darks, so when you subtract the Darks, Bias is automatically subtracted as well...
When Flats have short exposure time, well, Bias or Dark is the same

The only drawback of my method is that you cannot "tweak' the Darks. But I wouldn't do it in any case so....

I think I remember that not using bias was the prefered / recomended way of doing things by PI. I would have to check, but there has been lots of discussions on that few years ago.

Jérémie:

Bruce Donzanti:

Jérémie:
Yes, I use both.
The way to do it is : upload all your Darks in the Darks tab, then on the Calibration tab, you can select each serie of images you imported, and on the right side let Pixinsight choose automatically its Darks, or select the serie manually.

Interesting, why use both bias and dark flats?

I don't take Bias.

I use Darks for everything : Bias is included in the Darks, so when you subtract the Darks, Bias is automatically subtracted as well...
When Flats have short exposure time, well, Bias or Dark is the same

The only drawback of my method is that you cannot "tweak' the Darks. But I wouldn't do it in any case so....

I think I remember that not using bias was the prefered / recomended way of doing things by PI. I would have to check, but there has been lots of discussions on that few years ago.

Ok- I misunderstood.  I thought you were taking both.  I believe you are correct about dark flats in PI being preferred in PI, especially with the CMOS cameras.

Bruce Donzanti:

Jérémie:

Bruce Donzanti:

Jérémie:
Yes, I use both.
The way to do it is : upload all your Darks in the Darks tab, then on the Calibration tab, you can select each serie of images you imported, and on the right side let Pixinsight choose automatically its Darks, or select the serie manually.

Interesting, why use both bias and dark flats?

I don't take Bias.

I use Darks for everything : Bias is included in the Darks, so when you subtract the Darks, Bias is automatically subtracted as well...
When Flats have short exposure time, well, Bias or Dark is the same

The only drawback of my method is that you cannot "tweak' the Darks. But I wouldn't do it in any case so....

I think I remember that not using bias was the prefered / recomended way of doing things by PI. I would have to check, but there has been lots of discussions on that few years ago.

Ok- I misunderstood.  I thought you were taking both.  I believe you are correct about dark flats in PI being preferred in PI, especially with the CMOS cameras.

Well, reading everything again, I misunderstood the initial question, hence my answer that was indeed not very clear 

Yes. I use a master dark and dark flats, no bias frames. Simply load your master dark and your dark flats and let WBPP do the rest.

Rob Kiefer:
Hi Daniel, I highly recommend Adam Block youtube tutorials (The definitive guide to WBPP). Very detailed and all questions will be answered.

Yes I do that with subtitles cause english is not my native language and the speed of speaking is an issue on me.

Let me edit this message:

I was confused with the author, Adam has a great pronnounce accent and tempo. I’ll review those videos. 

Thanks! 🤗