RE: [APML] IC1396 - Five Schmidt Stack

["Chris Schur" <cschur@therim.com>]

Thats what I need, 3Gb of RAM.  I still have dozens of rolls of supra in the
freezer so there are many years ahead of stacking and shooting film!

Chris

-----Original Message-----
From: astro-photo-bounces@seds.org
[mailto:astro-photo-bounces@seds.org]On Behalf Of Richard Crisp
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 7:04 AM
To: Discussion of Film Astrophotography
Subject: Re: [APML] IC1396 - Five Schmidt Stack


when I switched from my ST10XME (3.2mpixel) to my IMG6303E (6Mpixels), it
just "broke the bank" when it came to image processing.

Usually I combine 6 to 12 dark frames for my master darks. and then when it
comes to flats I usually use ten flats and ten darks for those flats

then for the image data I use 6 to ten frames too.

registering 10 frames of 12MB each really put the kibash on my old laptop.
So instead of buying a really high end laptop, I just built me a new Pentium
4 machine with 3GB of RAM.

Even with a moderate processor speed of 2.8GHz, it really rips through that
data with the large amount of RAM. Now my computer doesn't spend most of the
time paging out to disk, it just runs from RAM.

Desktop machines are cheap compared to laptops so now I just image capture
with the laptop and do the heavy crunching with the desktop machine.

Doing Registar alignments now only take 5 minutes instead of a half hour.
That's a big deal for me.

Keep up the good work. Maybe someday we will have clearing weather out here.
I heard on the news that LA has had a a full year's worth of rain since Jan
1 and today is only the 10th!
rdc


----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Schur" <cschur@therim.com>
To: "Discussion of Film Astrophotography" <astro-photo@seds.org>
Sent: Monday, January 10, 2005 4:35 AM
Subject: RE: [APML] IC1396 - Five Schmidt Stack


> Richard, thanks - I scanned at 2700dpi with 35mm at 16 bits.  It took me
> two
> attempts at stacking to get them registered completely, 45 points in each
> image, 5 images, well you get the idea!
>
> Chris
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: astro-photo-bounces@seds.org
> [mailto:astro-photo-bounces@seds.org]On Behalf Of Richard Crisp
> Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2005 10:17 PM
> To: Discussion of Film Astrophotography
> Subject: Re: [APML] IC1396 - Five Schmidt Stack
>
>
> Hey that's really nice, Chris.
>
> That's got to be one of the deepest and wide field views of the '1396 area
> as I can remember seeing.
>
> i just love that object: there's just so much happening within it.
>
> I guess the final resolution was in the range of 7.5K x 4K roughly, is
> that
> right?
>
> was that medium format film or was it 35mm?
>
> thanks for sharing such a neat shot.
>
> rdc
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chris Schur" <cschur@therim.com>
> To: "APML" <Astro-Photo@seds.org>
> Sent: Sunday, January 09, 2005 8:38 PM
> Subject: [APML] IC1396 - Five Schmidt Stack
>
>
>> Hi all,
>>
>>
>> Once again I brought my computer to its knees to stack unimaginably huge
>> files to one unified image.  This is my first five neg stack with the
>> schmidt, and I think it came out pretty well.  Once again a non standard
>> orientation to stimulate your mind:
>>
>> http://www.schursastrophotography.com/filmimagepages/ic1396-1.html
>>
>>
>>
>> Clear Skies,
>>
>> Chris Schur
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