Joe, Thank you for correcting me. I've had a look at the IDL programmer manual. Here are a few quotes, quickly glanced : "[...] On computer systems that have...
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jmzawodny
Jan 2, 2010 1:35 am
... Yes, the thread-enabled routines are very fundamental (Sin, Cos, Log, *, /, +, -, where, fft, ...). There are very few routines/functions that are not...
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xyzgal
Jan 2, 2010 9:57 am
... Does this mean that increasing the size of these portions (by reducing the number of alignment points) would help in this case ? ... You' re right,...
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jmzawodny
Jan 3, 2010 1:07 pm
... can't recall). For the ... did not need to ... the images being ... the number of alignment points) would help in this case ? Possibly, but they would have...
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kboquist2000
Jan 3, 2010 4:43 pm
I'd like to thank everyone who responded to my earlier posts about multi-processors and running Avistack in general. If I recall correctly from the last few...
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jmzawodny
Jan 3, 2010 10:01 pm
Hi Ken, I just upgraded to Windows 7 64-bit Home Premium a few weeks ago and have been playing with 64-bit IDL. Your post made me realize that I had not yet...
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Michael Theusner
mtheusner
Jan 14, 2010 12:28 am
I wish you all a happy New Year! You may have wondered why I was not around for a long time. Well, I had the opportunity to go traveling. Who knows when I will...
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Paul Maxson
sunspot51
Jan 14, 2010 12:35 am
... I've noticed that while running avistack when it does a process such as "align frames" or "calculate quality" that all movement stops until I move my...
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Michael Theusner
mtheusner
Jan 14, 2010 12:58 am
Hmm, I've never had that. I really do not know what could be the cause of that. When exactly does that happen? Just when you have pressed the corresponding...
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Paul Maxson
sunspot51
Jan 14, 2010 1:18 am
Michael, Typically the process will go about 10-15% when it happens. All I have to do is move the mouse and it continues. Tomorrow I'll work with it and take...
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jmzawodny
Jan 14, 2010 3:02 am
I've never seen that either. Sounds like the system is going to some sort of suspended state. We'll probably need to know the version of AviStack and operating...
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Paul Maxson
sunspot51
Jan 14, 2010 3:54 am
The version is 1.8, the operating system is XP Professional, running on a Quad core system, 4 gigs and 2TB hard drive. This is the only software this happens...
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Paul Maxson
sunspot51
Jan 14, 2010 7:34 pm
Michael, Here's an observation. The issue seems to occur when I use .bmp frames. I never capture .avi's anymore. However, I did capture an .avi because that...
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Stefan Lammel
slammel
Jan 15, 2010 2:31 am
Hi Michael, Welcome back to the real world and happy new year. I enjoyed the movie (several times) especially when zoomed in with the browser to fill the...
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stuart.gray23
Jan 17, 2010 2:51 am
I just downloaded the windows version of avistack. When I tried to run it I got the error message 'Run time error 5 - invalid procedure call or argument'. I...
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Cool, Andrew
andrew_d_cool
Jan 18, 2010 10:37 pm
Hi Jocelyn, IDL Licence options :- 1. The trial version will run for 7 minutes under Windows, or 10 minutes under *nix, Neither of which is of much use. 2. Ask...
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marc
marc31patry
Jan 23, 2010 10:57 pm
Hi, Recently I need to reinstall my system and I loaded AS 1.80. I found maybe a (little) issue when I need to put first alignment points. I use generaly...
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Michael Theusner
mtheusner
Jan 23, 2010 11:56 pm
Hi, Strangely, it does not do that with my 1.80 version. When I choose "false color" and then change the sliders, it remains "false color". Maybe this depends...
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marc
marc31patry
Jan 24, 2010 9:55 am
I am using XP pro sp3. Maybe a bad installation, I'm currently re-downloading AS to be sure ! Marc...
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michaellxv
Feb 12, 2010 10:10 am
Hi all, Just joined the group, new to AviStack and new to imaging. My initial results with AviStack are better than my initial results with Registax which I...
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jmzawodny
Feb 12, 2010 12:03 pm
Here is a little something I wrote to introduce the Wavelets tool. http://joe.zawodny.com/index.php/2008/12/31/wavelets-for-avistack/ I usually use only 1 or 2...
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michaellxv
Feb 12, 2010 12:18 pm
Thanks for the link Joe. Google has directed me to your site several times for a good read, I had not come across this article yet though. I am imaging the...
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bassoe2554
Feb 12, 2010 11:27 pm
Hi all This is my first post in this group but hopefully not my last [:)] I have finished part 1 of 3 of a tutorial on Avistack. Any comments and suggestions...
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Catalin Fus
catalin_fus
Feb 14, 2010 2:31 pm
Hello, I have tried today to make a stack of some Sun images taken with my setup and to my surprise, after everything is done in AviStack and just stacking...
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jmzawodny
Feb 14, 2010 7:41 pm
I can't quite make out how many reference points you are using in the image you linked to, however, I think it says something like 6100 points. This is way...
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Catalin Fus
catalin_fus
Feb 14, 2010 8:30 pm
Hi Joe, well, that's a problem that dazzles me quite badly because I have used same number of points (6000+) on a lunar stack of 1800x1800 size and surprise,...
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jmzawodny
Feb 15, 2010 1:59 am
Catalin, Well Michael is aware of the problem and I think he has a few ideas on how to split the calculation into smaller pieces. Generally increasing the...
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Michael Theusner
mtheusner
Feb 15, 2010 7:48 am
Hi! The main problem is the size of the images you want to process. DSLR images often exceed the amount of memory available to the application. You can...
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Michael Theusner
mtheusner
Feb 15, 2010 7:48 am
Oh, just noticed: Set the smoothing factor to its max value to get less points. Michael...
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Catalin Fus
catalin_fus
Feb 15, 2010 4:59 pm
Hi Michael, it seems that not points are the problem :-). I have reduced the size from 4272x2848 to 3000x2000 and it worked with 17k+ alignment points for 30...
