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

Date: February 11, 2010 4:18:04 PM MST

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: Stacking slow?

Hi Milton,

As soon as the stacking is finished, I will capture it. The mac is still crawling on now, don't want to interrupt anything for the moment. Do I send it to you or post it? Not sure how big the log file will be. Haven't looked at it yet.

Dodi

--- In Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com, Milton Aupperle <milton@...> wrote:

We need to see your resulting Stacking log file to see what options

your using to even make a guess at what your doing.

Milton Aupperle

On 11-Feb-10, at 3:14 PM, digidodi wrote:

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?

Dodi