Ha Sol 3rd October

[Peter Ward]

Today's installment here

The detached proms were a surprise.

Convective cloud once again made the seeing very ordinary.

A somewhat successful workaround looks to be lots of frames.

In this case
a 2000 frame run which chewed up 35Gb of storage.
Even though the camera is USB 3.0 and recording is to a SSD, the frame rate tops out at 9 fps. Might try a different hub,
but I suspect the somewhat older capture PC can't pump data any faster.

Amazingly my PC's AMD ThreadRipper processor made short work of the file, aligning and stacking the file in under 3 minutes.

[John W (John Wilkinson)]

Great detail in that image Peter - you must have had clear sky. Fast processing as well. Some interesting features at the moment.

Cheers, John W.

[Peter Ward]

Originally Posted by John W

Great detail in that image Peter - you must have had clear sky. Fast processing as well. Some interesting features at the moment.

Cheers, John W.

Ta John. My old desktop PC died a couple of years ago. The upgrade was literally to a processor 10 generations later: AMD's Threadripper CPU.

It is 10x faster than my old machine.

I doubt I'll be going back to an Intel machine any time soon.

[rustigsmed (Russell)]

lovely detail and excellent processing as usual Peter.

yes you got to love threadrippers' for multi core tasks. I've got a 5950x running in my 'homeserver' I run a vm off it and remote into while also doing more processing on my actual desktop (another 5950x) effectively halving the wait time in stacking. Good when there are a lot of videos to crunch through - otherwise overkill.

[Peter Ward]

Originally Posted by rustigsmed

lovely detail and excellent processing as usual Peter.

yes you got to love threadrippers' for multi core tasks. I've got a 5950x

Ta.

I'm running a "vintage" AMD3970x with 64Gb of RAM.

2 years since their debut...and serious $$$ too.... but gee it's still posting
benchmarks that are rarely exceeded.