Iris totally lost

[Carl]

Hi folks
Just downloaded Iris and nothing works. I'm no genius but i'm not dumb. nothing makes sense. Does anyone out there have the time to explain to me how to use this software.
Carl

[seeker372011]

Carl

dont panic!!!

we have all been there and I understand exactly how you feel!!

Now draw a deep breath and go to Jim Solomon's site and get a copy of his excellent cookbook
http://www.saratogaskies.com/articles/cookbook/index.html

to begin with follow his workflow exactly; as time goes on you you can experiment. V2 is much better than vi so just stick with v2 of his cookbook..there is also an IRIS yahoo group-on whih Jim is an active member but I really think you will start to see some spectacular results if you simply follow his workflow as outlined in his cokbook

ask if there are any questions unanswered after you have read his cookbook and actually tried it out

[davidpretorius]

the tutorials off the site are the best way.......the learning curve is sssssssssssssssssoooooooooooooooooo ooooooooooooo steep

[seeker372011]

Sorry david but I must disagree....The tutorials on site are Ok but unfortunately leave out more than they cover..Jim Solomon's cookbook or the yahoo group I'd suggest would be better

[netwolf]

Seeker, you link is mainly for long exposure DSO work. Not for planets. But its an excellent tutorial for that.
Dave I recall sometime back you did a tutorial or quick run down for IRIS planet processing. Where can we get it?

Are there any sources for Planetary work? The one tutorial they have has many gaps in explaining the method. Sub steps are left out.

Reagards

[iceman]

I find that most tutorials cover the command line options and arguments, but don't often explain what it's doing or why. It's just a "repeat this and you'll be fine". I'd prefer to actually understand why we're executing that command.

I also prefer to use the GUI menus rather than command-line where appropriate, especially while learning, but can see the benefit in command-line stuff once you know what it's doing, and when you're able to script it for batch processing etc.

[Carl]

Wow folks
obviously a few people out there uese it. thanks for theadvise i'll check out saratogaskies and see what happens

Regards
Carl

[netwolf]

Mike, you took the words right out my mouth. The planet tutorial talks about threshold but does not explain it well enough for you to understand and apply it for say Saturn. It then offers an alternative autoselction mode for Saturn but does not reiterate the other steps, and just expects if you to fill in the dots. At this stage I think its possibly better to use Registax for Stacking and then save as Tiff for processing in Iris. Here is where I have found another issue. The Fits and Tif files saved from Registaxt seem to open in some strange color format in Iris. I have noticed this with Astrimage and Stellermagic and Pixinsight. When you do a process and go from one program to another using the Fits or Tiff format the picture displayed when you open the file is either fully gray or white or black with some edges of the planet in the centre. Its as if they dont know what color space the file is in and are opening it up in the wrong one.

Regards

[garymck]

This might be helpful:

http://astro.ai-software.com/articles/dslr_iris/dslr_iris.html

cheers
Gary