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Old 28-10-2020, 09:42 PM
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Originally Posted by gregbradley View Post
I am getting one as well. File sizes unbinned at 122mb. So if you take shorter exposures than you would with CCD, say 5 minutes instead of 10 minutes, then say 6 hours of total exposure is going to be 87gb. Plus darks, plus flats, plus flat darks and you are looking at something like 100gb for one complete image plus saved processing versions.

Greg.
Are you sure about your maths Greg?

122Mb x 12 images per hour = 1.5Gb per hour

If you're using Pixinsight for processing, there are some threads on that forum about PC specs - multithreaded processors, lots of RAM, lots of swap disks.

Something for next year's budget...

DT
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