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Old 11-09-2021, 07:04 AM
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Cheers Jonathan,,, cant trust many these days mate & glad I start a thread here
Back in the day, it was the norm to upgrade stuff - i've re-built many a PC over the years, but technology as moved on a lot since anything that will have had win 7 installed on it. Its a key component of your imaging system, so worth investing in.
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Old 11-09-2021, 03:03 PM
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Hi Bob...

It's your money and i'm just jealous you will be getting more kit....

To fix your DSS live issue, you need to change the monitored directory.
I just tried it here.....if i use my downloads folder, DSS tries to open every file in it.....despite none of them being images, and giving the same errors as you got. This would seem to be a design flaw with DSS - it should ignore anything thats not an image...
I recommend you create a folder like c:\DSSMON and use that for nothing else but loading images that you want to stack.

Please note - if even if you get new kit and a new OS, and still try and use the downloads folder in the same way - you will end up with the same problem.

Give it a go and let us know how you go.

Unfortunately i haven't used nebulosity but i'm sure others could help with that problem!

PS for DSS at least you should not have to convert to TIFF - it should be able to read .CR2 natively.....this should save you some time, and might result in better images.(conversion processes sometimes loses you data.)
Thnx again sharkbite, no new kit for a while yet.
Well, I didn't make a new folder, but instead uninstalled everything I could find DSS wise, then deleted everything related I could find, then empted the recycle bin, did a restart and download DSS again, then up showed that window ( as in my previous attached) but I did Not follow the instruction and just hit the Moniter button, mainly because it looked like a 'Play' button, Lol, yup, I just dont understand puutas,,, anyway, then the DSS main interface window showed up and I went from there, Loaded about 6 tiffs into it, registering was very slow indeed, approx 15-20 minutes per sub, so I went to bed and had a pleasent image in the morning, ,
I know its not working as it should, I can remember stacking 20 tiff subs in DSS and it would register and stack the whole lot in approx 7-8minutes.

Anyway, not sure if I want to go further in sorting it, except maybe upgrade to windows 10 and start over,, I have a weird suspicion that my un-orthodox ways are at fault here,,, I just cant make sence of these things, puutas, yeah, can play real good in photoshop, but the rest of it, hopeless, half the reason why I didnt go Mono imaging, doing my head in, but give me an engine that does not work and I will most likely fix it while experiencing a fun time doing so, no matter how challenging :-)

Kind Rgrds & Thnx again..
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Back in the day, it was the norm to upgrade stuff - i've re-built many a PC over the years, but technology as moved on a lot since anything that will have had win 7 installed on it. Its a key component of your imaging system, so worth investing in.
Yes, Thanx for that Jonathan, and agree, I recognise and use to keep up with it 5-10 yrs ago, but its all becoming to much for this duck, some of us are at home infront of a screen, sorting issues etc !
Maybe Win 10 will be the answer in this situation, if not, I'll just simply give up on stacking astro and just go with terrestrial etc !
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