Crash Live Solar Stacking: Time Lapse

[MikeB838]

Hi Robin,

last evening I had several crashes (SC Pro v4.1.11711 64bit) in Live Planetary Stacking, when
I try to create a time lapse of Jupiter.

Doing it manually works like a charm, but pressing the "Start Time Lapse" button crashes SC
(please see the attached log-file).

I tried changing the settings (png, tiff, avi) with no help.

I had set the "Target Stack Length" to 100 and a "Time Lapse Interval" of 10s.
The crash occurs shortly (less than 10 seconds) after pressing the button. and all
previous sharpening adjustments were lost.

Thank you for looking!

Best regards,
Michael

A short annimation done by manually taking shots can be seen here:
http://www.twus.de/astro/Jupiter_2024_0 ... _lable.gif

[admin]

Hi Michael,

I think I have seen this particular issue in the uploaded bug reports - when I added the code for grouping the saved files into a single folder, it introduced an issue where certain filename settings can cause each TIF file saved in a timelapse to have the same name, which the saving code objects to (it's set up not to overwrite as that would be bad...).

I have a fix for TIF, surprised it would affect AVI or SER - will check.

cheers,

Robin

[MikeB838]

Hi Robin,

thanks for looking!

In the error box I clicked the send button without entering a comment (I was not aware that it sends
immediately), so I openend a bug report with more details.

Forgot to write that the Solar Live stacking feature is a great tool and gives better results than I got
with autostakkert3. Thanks a lot for all the great features!

cheers,
Michael

[admin]

Hi Micheal,

I suspect that you probably could get better results in AutoStakkert/Registax/Wavesharp/etc if you try hard enough. However, the fast feedback that you have in SharpCap where you see the results of your changes almost instantly gives you a big advantage in choosing good values for the various settings. In a more traditional processing workflow, you might not see the full results of your setting choices until several stages later, which makes things harder to optimise.

cheers,

Robin

[MikeB838]

Hi Robin,

sorry for the late reply, only yesterday weather and time permits to check.
I used SC 4.1.11786 and I had no more crashes creating avi and tiff time lapses.

Thank you very much for the fast solution (faster than the weather permits

BTW: I do not want to reduce the reputation of autostakkert (new version V4 out now),
it does a great job. SC Live Planetary Stacking shows faster results (and a little bit better
results (sharper pictures) with my talent using autostakkert).

Cheers,

Michael

[admin]

Hi Michael,

good to hear that the fix has worked for you. Fingers crossed the latest 4.1.11786 fixes all of the issues I know about causing crashing in planetary live stacking

cheers,

Robin