G'day Portmac, can I begin by saying that your posted image is not all that bad. It needs a few things happening differently, but so do the 'fantastic' images, before they become 'fantastic'.
Before offering any help, on the image, how was that particular image acquired?
Is it one long exposure or is it a stack of several short exposures. There is a lot of noise evident, have you subtracted dark frames?
Please let us know what exposure settings, save options and and dark frame subtraction you were using.
As for the S/W hanging, yep it does that. I think it is related to internal image processing operations which sometimes seems to take a bit longer than at other times.
I haven't used my DSI sinse last year and my memory lately is a bit on the slow side, but as I recall there were some issues with issuing commands faster than the software can respond, causing a hang up. What I observed was that the counter would sit there on zero, no other imputs would be accepted, then all of a sudden I would have a responsive console again; but the instruction that caused the hang is discarded anyway. Well something like that in my case any way.
Please respond with details of how you acquired that image, it isn't really all that bad; good tracking, focus seems reasonable, that is an important start, you just need to improve your technique, and that is something you have in common with the best imagers!
waiting to hear back,
Doug
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Originally Posted by Portmac
I am having a few issues with this DSI and Envisage software, first of all the software tends to hang a lot. The "Preview" button works only when it wants to, I click it and it counts down to zero and then just sits there until I click Abort. This happens maybe 3 out of 5 tries, sometimes more sometimes less.
I have tried reinstalling and also have the latest version of the software (5.85) and still it happens.
This is happening on my laptop computer:
Win XP Home (fresh install and fully updated)
1.5GHz Celery
768MB DDR Ram
etc
And for the few images I have managed to get so far they are not exactly pleasing to the eye (example below), any part that is a little bit brighter than the rest ends up nasty.
I have poked the settings to death and tried different exposure lenghts but always end up with the same result, so if anyone has any hints/tips/pointers etc I am all ears.
Scope is a Meade LX-90 8"
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