Deep sky stacker out of memory

Come join the friendliest, most engaging and inclusive astronomy forum geared for beginners and advanced telescope users, astrophotography devotees, plus check out our "Astro" goods vendors. Post by Larry » Sat Jul 27, pm. Post by Juno16 » Sat Jul 27, pm. Post by Ozypic » Sat Jul 27, pm.

How could adding calibration frames quadruple the stacking time? Any ideas or suggestions or tips to speed up the process?? Try reducing the star detection threshold , to say 25, and run the lights again to compare with the previous time taken. Yep, Star Detection can increase the total time by a lot. Which can give about 60 stars depending on the object. Just finished stacking Took 6hrs 20 minutes Has anyone else had over 6hrs to stack that amount of data inc calibration frames?? Thanks Martin.

Deep sky stacker out of memory

Version 4. I stumbled upon this last night after not imaging for a couple weeks due to weather. So far, so good. The look and feel are basically the same with only slight visual tweaks. One of the standing problems with Deep Sky Stacker has been the lack of a 64bit version. Having only a bit option for DSS only allowed for the use of a maxiumum of 4GB of RAM — in reality it was much less due to other system limitations. Even an attempt to start stacking an image with the Drizzle option selected would result in an out of memory error! The new version is 4. Be sure you are using a bit PC and operating system prior to trying to jump to the bit version. Some of us Astrophotographers are still using older laptops due to driver compatibility for our equipment, limiting our experience. To find out if you can utilize this feature, click on Start and search for Control Panel. Double-click the System icon. The most important field is the system type, followed by the installed memory. If the system type says bit Operating System, the bit option is out for you without at least upgrading your version of Windows. One other variance of note on this — If you see that you have 8GB or more RAM, and you have a bit operating system, you should consider upgrading Windows to a bit version unless you have specific applications holding you back.

Number of detected stars. For imaging: Orion 8" astrograph mm F3. Are you able to check the memory usage during stacking in the task manager?

Windows Page file size? RAM size, 32 or 64 bit? From: DeepSkyStacker groups. Hello- Just captured some new data this weekend. Not as much as I had hoped - so I'm only really stacking about a dozen or so images. Went through the entire process, stacking seems to be going well - then right before it completes, I get an error box reading simply "Out of Memory"???

Forgot your password? I've split this out to it's own thread, that way you're more likely to get notice and answered. You don't mention what camera you're using to shoot the images, what version of DSS you're using etc. Please provide as much detail as possible. I believe DSS is a 32bit application so is unable to use the 8gb ram you have available limited to 4gb. Some of the processes within DSS are very memory hungry - drizzling for example. Reboot your laptop prior to use to free up as much memory for DSS to work with. Do not have any other programs running in the background. Davefrance is correct, DSS is a 32 bit program and unable to use the 8Gb of ram, about 3 is the bestit can manage. Make sure that you uncheck the drizzle or use the custom rectangle from the main window to define a region of interest for either 2X or 3X, the sizes are indicted by the rectangle.

Deep sky stacker out of memory

So you are having fun under the stars taking tons of images of the night sky, and now you need to process them? Whether you are a beginner or a seasoned astrophotographer, Deep Sky Stacker is a great starting point. So instead, we will explain in detail the workflow and let you experiment with the setting.

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For example it may be used to create the resulting images from the red, green, blue and luminance images without the need to load each list then start manually the stacking process for each one. I have just tried this trick on DeepSkyStacker. Existing user? Size of the picture in pixel Width x Height. Alien 13 Posted February 16, You can zoom in and zoom out by pointing the mouse and using the wheel. You can adjust your cookie settings , otherwise we'll assume you're okay to continue. Post by Larry » Fri Aug 02, pm. From this dialog you can also change the stacking methods for each type of picture by clicking directly on the link or on the "Stacking Parameters" button. The second parameter is the threshold under which no correction is done the pixel value remain the same. Before the stacking process a screen recapitulates the different steps. The properties dialog may be used to change the picture type, and temporarily only for the current session the ISO speed and exposure time of one or more pictures.

Deep SkyStacker is an excellent, and free, software program written by Luc Coiffier that will align, calibrate, and combine, or "stack", a series of individual deep-sky exposures. It can be downloaded at:. It is reasonably simple to use, but can be a bit confusing for beginners because of its many settings.

Sometimes I take untracked milky way subs and stack a few hundred. Posted March 12, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options Note: Your email address is included with the abuse report. Windows Page file size? One of the things I like about pixinsight is that it keeps track of system resources it has available and schedules its work to avoid hitting bottlenecks. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. You can see an example of a star mask on the right. Post by bobharmony » Sun Jul 28, pm. Post by Larry » Sat Jul 27, pm.