From: albe albo <richter1956@yahoo.com>

Date: October 8, 2010 2:45:12 AM MDT

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: [Astro_IIDC] Astro IIDC 4.06.01 Available

....Fixes two crashing bugs. The first occur when using the Medium and Wide spacing for sharpness estimation and the second is in the SSE3 / Altivec alignment code under edge cases.

Wow...very nice Milton. 

I was writing a detailed bug report for you about this issue because you know that i was a fanatic of that "wide" estimation (i asked for it).

I needed some time in order to understand "why"  AIIDC  crashed because since i used only wide and medium it was not so evident that the cause was the  spacing.

After  wondering a lot and living a estimation-nightmare only recently i realized that cause.

The strange behaviour that puzzled me was that after some random retry (even 8-10 retries with final crash) the estimation worked fine ...but it was pretty  frustrating.

Anyway now my bug report is obsolete and ready to be sent to the  trashcan happy to know about this fix.

Now I'm trying to understand why after stacking sometimes i get multiple (perhaps 4)  small replicas of the planet in the upper side (visible only with huge level stretching) but it is a different story.

Thank you and have a nice working day

TTYL

by the way... very nice NGC6995! Difficult task to get such filaments.

A question: the stars are a little enlarged. Is it caused by the processing (level stretching) or they were big even on the single frames?

Da: milton_aupperle <milton@outcastsoft.com>

A: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Inviato: Mer 6 ottobre 2010, 19:05:51

Oggetto: [Astro_IIDC] Astro IIDC 4.06.01 Available

Hi Folks;

I just posted Astro IIDC 4.06.01, which fixes two sporadic crashing bugs when stacking:

http://www.outcastsoft.com/ASCASTROIIDC.html#DOWNLOAD

Took a few days to finally get it to happen so I could step through the code in the debugger under those conditions, determine the root cause and fix it.

TTYL..

Milton Aupperle