From: "doobisary" <tjp314@pacbell.net>

Date: September 11, 2012 11:21:37 AM MDT

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: Jupiter impact w/ AstroIIDC

Beautiful capture, George!

Thanks for making it known that you use Astro IIDC!  I'm really fond of this software, and will be sad to see it go.  (Ink me for a GK, Milton).

Sorry for the threadjack, but this great software deserves all the "plugging" it can get!

-Tim.

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

Hi George;

It depends on which version of OSX your using. Apple keeps moving and  

re-naming the Crash logs around between versions and also hides the  

entire user Library folder in Lion or higher.

If you launch "Console.app" (in /Application/Utilities) and then in  

"Console Messages" window you click on the black triangle to expand on  

the "Log Files" item in the left hand column and then then the  "~/ 

Library/Logs" item until you finally expose the "CrashReporter" item,  

you may find a item named "Astro IIDC". If you expand that then the  

crash log should show up there. You would need to copy the information  

in the main window and then paste it into and e-mail and send it to me  

at:

"support@..."

I have spent the last 45 minutes running tests on 8 and 16 bit movies  

up to 3 gigs in size and haven't had any issues show up in 10.5.8,  

10.6.8 or 10.8.1 in x86 or PowerPC Macs, so I'm not sure what the  

issue here is. The only thing as a user you need to do is select the  

movie to convert and then open the folder to save the fits files to.  

Then it just dumps the frames out.

However sometime QuickTime goes Squirrely and the only remedy is a re- 

boot.

HTH..

Milton aupperle

On 11-Sep-12, at 10:18 AM, george hall wrote:

Milton,

Where would the crash logs likely be located? I will send them to  

you if I can find them. The problem is likely cockpit error, I was  

in a rush and was not stopping to read the users guide about  

features that I had never used before. It has been an exciting 24  

hours. A once in a lifetime event!

George

On Sep 11, 2012, at 10:19 AM, Milton Aupperle wrote:

Hi George;

On 11-Sep-12, at 9:06 AM, george hall wrote:

Milton,

Thanks, Here is a Flickr link

http://www.flickr.com/photos/19299984@N08/7976507568/in/photostream

Thanks.. Amazing movie. That looks a lot brighter than Mag 6 (maybe

they meant Mag -6) that S&T and indicated:

http://www.skyandtelescope.com/observing/home/Another-Flash-on-Jupiter-169263686.html

I attempted to export the files to FITS, but could not get that to

work. ASTRO IIDC crashed each time (the video size was over 2000

frames). I did export the data to TIF format and the guys from NASA

seemed happy with that.

Tiff will lose the frame rate information though. And AVI are not

frame accurate when coming from Apple. AVI can't do variable frame

rates either. I'm not sure if that was addressed in WMV or not.

Unfortunately the camera was saturated during much of the impact, so

they could not get an accurate light curve.

Did you keep the crash logs? I never had it crash in my testing -  

even

with 5000 frame 16 bit color movies exported. I'd be interested in

seeing where that happened so I can fix it before the final 409.00

release.

Thanks for sharing..

Milton Aupperle