Shawn's PixInsight Scripts (and Other Astro Tools)

Overview video of how to use and install this script.

ASIAirCleaner is a script that allows users of the ASIAir to quickly remove unwanted files that are unneeded and get in the way when processing the photos such during weighted (or fast) batch pre-preprocessing (WBPP or FBPP). The unwanted files which are mainly .jpg images (*_thn.jpg) that the ASIAir unit uses as thumbnails for display purposes within their applications and are no longer useful after copying the files to a computer. Typically these files would either have to all by manually deleted after every imaging session, or carefully not selected when processing the rest of the full resolution images (or videos). This script can recursively search all directories within a project folder making the process very quick. It works on Windows, MacOS, and Linux.

After installation ASIAirCleaner can be found under the Scripts -> Utilities menu.

PixInsight: forum topic.

Similar functionality as the above PixInsight version - but instead integrated into Windows! This application adds an action to the menu when you right-click on a folder in Windows (under Show more options for Windows 11), that allows you to quickly delete all _thn.jpp files. It not only deletes the unwanted files in that folder but all sub folders as well. No need to start PixInsight (or no need to even have PixInsight).

Installation File: ASIAirCleaner_Installer_v1_0_0.zip

Source Code: ASIAirCleaner_Win_Source_v1_0_0.zip

The ASIAir Rotation and Position Calculator is a simple script that may not be useful very often but can come in handy when trying to add more sub exposures to a project and you want to preplan a session on your computer without using the ASIAIR's plate solver on a old image. The ASIAIR measures rotation differently than PixInsight does, this calculator makes it easy to translate between the two. PixInsight’s ImageSolver measures the rotation from -180° to 180° Counter-Clockwise (CCW) from North. Conversely, ASIAIR defaults to measuring its rotation angle from 0° to 360° Clockwise (CW) from North. Using this script you can easily enter the data as custom object and reframe the exact same target; both the rotation and position.

After installation ASIAirRotationPosition can be found under the Scripts -> Utilities menu.