From: "digidodi" <ddierick@gmail.com>

Date: February 11, 2010 3:14:00 PM MST

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Stacking slow?

Hi,

I am new to Astro II DC, coming from a Windows PC, now working with Mac for astrophotography. All seems to work fine, but the stacking is very slow compared to eg Registax on Windows. I tried Mars tonight, which takes a very long time to stack out of film of 3000 images. I am using a dual core 2.6Ghz notebook pro.

I tried to speed it up by making the selection region for sharpness estimates the center quadrant, and next selecting a user selected area for stacking of small size. The initial sharpness estimation goes very fast, but the stacking itself crawls through the movie.

Am I missing something? Doing something wrong?

tx

Dodi