I have been working with Kstars and Ekos for about a month. I am starting to get the hang of the product and the crazy ways things need to be configured in many different places for your equipment to work as you would expect.
One of the pain points i’m running into now is with creating Capture Sequence Queue. I always use the same exposure and iso when capturing images of a target, so i created a single sequence to use during all my sessions. The issue I’m having now is that I have to load the Capture Sequence Queue every day, update the file path to save the images manually and re-save. Then i can create the imaging sequence to use the updated Capture Sequence.
The format i save my images to is:
./Astro/M_51/2026-02-18/Lights/{file_name}
So my Capture Sequence has the Format set to:
Astro/%t/2026-02-18/%T/%F/%t_%T_%F
There is a %d variable for adding the capture date/time to the file name but the docs say NOT to use that for the file path because you would get a new directory with every new image.
I capture all images by night so stacking is consistent. I need every night to be in its own folder so i don’t get lost trying to find all the different images take for a target each day.
I would like to see the ability to use a variable to define the day these images were take.
Astro/%t/%D/%T/%F/%t_%T_%F
This way, i can create a single capture sequence to use with every target.
Maybe i’m missing something and this can already be done. It seems that most configurations in Kstars are manual (craziness if you ask me) but i don’t think this is one that needs to be…