From: albe albo <richter1956@yahoo.com>
Date: April 26, 2010 2:02:55 AM MDT
To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Re: [Astro_IIDC] Re: Astro IIDC 4.06.00 A1 Available
Hello Milton and all,
at last I was able to get a complete set of Visible +IR+ RGB recording of Saturno using the software ROI.
Wow, excellent. I love it.
Since my mount has a nice polar alignment i set a small 512 x 360 window.
The whole folder containing a 15fps IR movie + a visible light movie @ 30fps-2500 frames + R+G+B (700 frames each) take almost the same disk space that the single 2.500 frames film at full frame.
It is nice to see numbers like 540 Mbytes instead of 2,3 Gigabytes for a single movie with lot of black areas into it.
In addition i noticed that on a pretty old G4 mac the smaller area allows to the disk to save always at precise 30fps while sometime i noticed that very noisy full frame @30fps movie could be recorded with some missing frame and with weird frame-rates like 27,8 , 28,3 or similar.
Very good. Many thanks to Milton for that.
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A question about batch aligning and stacking:
is it possible to prepare a batch for processing/stacking movies with multiple manually selected points and the creation of blended images?
I read (perhaps quickly) the manual but i wasn't able to find the specific explanation.
TTYL
Da: Milton Aupperle <milton@outcastsoft.com>
A: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com
Inviato: Gio 22 aprile 2010, 21:31:37
Oggetto: Re: [Astro_IIDC] Re: Astro IIDC 4.06.00 A1 Available
Hi Alberto;
On 22-Apr-10, at 3:29 AM, albe albo wrote:
Your images look really good.
Anyway this release is very very interesting for the de-rotation too even if i love the ROI and the Sharpness.
I think that for a very reliable response i should use it on many kind of movies.
Just to clarify, I doubt if the de-rotation will work on anything except discrete stars. It uses a simple centroid algorithm to identify the star location and does no pixel matching at all. So unless you present it with a star like image, it likely will not work with anything else.
Report About TIS Diagonal pattern:
By the way... after a very long training that i did to TIS technicians (before i learned by myself how to get the pattern with Windows too) they were able to get the diagonal pattern on my old camera.
For two or three attempts they answered that they weren't able to get the pattern and they told me that the cause was or a defect of Apple firewire power supply or radio interference at my house.
Well, after they got the pattern following my precise instruction they eventually answered that it is a problem with NO solution since they should redesign all the analog part of the cameras and that would need years and the result wouldn't be sure.
They suggested to keep the brightness at lower level...
So please take note you too and anyone is afflict by that
Thanks for the update on that. Glad to hear you can duplicate it with their software, as they were initially saying it was an Astro IIDC problem (NOT), then a Mac HW problem (NOT) or radio interference problem (very very unlikely unless your using big magnetic or transmitting devices).
Milton J. Aupperle