LoadSettings or LS


To properly perform photometry and to produce reports, Phoranso needs essential information that you have to provide upfront, which we refer to as Settings. This includes a/o your observer name and location (longitude/latitude), the astrometric solver you want to use, the ringset for your aperture photometry, the type of reports to be produced, etc.  


Phoranso comes equipped with a default settings file named PhoransoSettings, which is automatically loaded the first time you launch the application. This file resides in the Phoranso subfolder within your Documents directory. While many settings are already configured in the default file, you may need to customize some to align with your specific setup and requirements. 


Some Phoranso users may work with multiple telescopes and CCD/CMOS cameras, resulting in different Settings to be used. The same applies to a user working from different observatories (locations).


Phoranso allows to save your Settings to a file. This way, you can for instance create two Settings files, one that is used when you observe from your first observatory and another that is used when observing from the second observatory. This avoids that each time you start Phoranso you have to manually modify a series of Settings.


The LoadSettings command requires one parameter:


    • SettingsFile or -SF: specifies the location of the Settings file to be used by Phoranso. If the LoadSettings command is not executed or included in your Script file, Phoranso will default to using the last utilized Settings file.



Examples


  • Phoranso LoadSettings -SettingsFile "F:\Documents\Phoranso\BESettings.xml"


Launches Phoranso and loads the Settings file "F:\Documents\Phoranso\BESettings.xml", which becomes the default used Settings file for all subsequent batch commands


  • Phoranso LS -SF "F:\Documents\Phoranso\BESettings.xml"


Same as above but using the abbreviated version of the LoadSettings command