Recipes & Batch

Save the exact sequence of steps you applied, then replay it on another image — or on a whole folder in one go.

Nocturne's Batch dialog processing a folder of FITS files with a recipe — Point a saved recipe at a folder and process everything at once. Click to enlarge.

What it does

A recipe records the steps you applied — crop, background, colour, stretch, all the way through the Enhancements taps — so you can replay them exactly. Batch then runs a saved recipe over every FITS in a folder without opening each image, and writes out finished files.

How to use it

Process one image the way you like it, then click Save Recipe.
Click Batch, pick your saved recipe, an input folder, an output folder and a format (TIFF / PNG / FITS).
Run — it processes the whole folder with a progress bar.

The Enhancements taps are captured in recipes too, so your finishing carries through the whole folder — not just the pipeline steps.

What a recipe remembers

Tips

Useful for a target shot over several nights: finish one image the way you like it, then run the rest as a batch.

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