From: Ray Byrne <ray@in4media.co.uk>

Date: February 12, 2010 8:08:26 AM MST

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: [Astro_IIDC] Re: Stacking slow?

Hi Dodi,

Welcome to the group didn't I know you over on the TMB group several years back?

On 11 Feb 2010, at 23:18, digidodi wrote:

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?
> >
> > tx
> >
> > Dodi
>