[astronobob (Bob)]

Originally Posted by LewisM

Bob, I won't give up churning out technicolour yawns. I do it for my own enjoyment, not the glory

I paid a half a thousand damned bucks for MaxIM DL several years ago. I upgraded to Win 10. Seemed to work (after I had to start it in Administrator mode), but it won't connect to my SBIG cam, no matter what I try. Nada.

I have no advice but to keep trying!

Cheers Lewis, you have just given advice & is good & encouraging
Realising that back in the day, 10yr ago, astro was exciting, just learning with a dslr, ED80 and dark clear skies out west, getting just the wings of Orion one felt like a champion, Lol & I must say, Progs are very much my weak point, being a concreter, builder etc for most of my yrs, PC's I find awkward, took 5 yrs learning just to 'sit-down' at one for 10mins straight, Lol !
you mentioned, Administrator mode, definitely secretarial work in my books, ,
Cheers champ !!
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Originally Posted by multiweb

You're not alone Bob. It's been clear but the seeing has been unbelievably bad most of July and now August. The jetstream is relentless going from bad to worse on average. Very very few pockets of calm now and then that a few made the most of, but the east coast has been a total washout this winter. Shelf the gear until better days and pick up lawn balls

Shelf the gear, mate, where its been the last 2 yrs But seriously, am hearing Ya, thanx Marc - hoping it is what you mention, 'A Seasonal thing' & not 'Progress' as in Expansion on the Gold Coast, Road works all around us atm, and being done At Night' Grrrr, Lights going up by the dozens every week
Comforting feedback all the same Marc, argg, we live in hope
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Originally Posted by glend

Take a break, walk away. I have taken the winter off. Does you a world of good to go do other things.

Yes & no Thanx Glen, , Havent done much for 2 yrs, Prob expecting too much, I'd say, not realising the difference between Dark Skies from times gone & practicing at home in the burbs recently now-a-days, also the images produced here now are way better than 2 yr ago aswell !
Cheers glen, have brought some good thoughts to mind there
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Originally Posted by sil

have you looked at the bmp files to see if they display fine and are uncorrupted, did you record straight to bmp? when I do video I put it through PIPP first to create my BMP files and registax has always been fine with those. Dont forget not all BMP files are created the same way, ditto all file formats, if you are recording to bmp directly that could cause problems, especially if not recording over a good usb connection to a SSD (NOT HDD).

if your source bmps display fine, dump them into AutoStakkert instead, i find it much better for planetary and surface stacking.

I reckon your on to something here, Sil, File format/type ?
Using Fire-Capture with the zwo asi, full frame files in Bmp, saves each individual sub. not actually a video sequence. I then look through each sub in Nebulosity and delete the bad/offending subs, keeping three best subs in each panel to stack, Every 20 subs in all 33 panels were complete full frames.
It wasnt until stacking each 3 in Registax that Regi produced these 'cut-off' slices in the final stack
I reckon it be very wise for me to take 'your advice' with stacking in Auto-Stakkert
If works, which sounds promising, would be better than converting each sub to another appropriate file format, if that's the case
Very much appreciated, Sil

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