UPDATE FROM MABULA
I have had a very rough 2 months unfortunately health wise. I was struck 3x in a row with bacterial infections. The second infection occurred  after a routine hospital checkup and I became very sick. I had to rest and take a lot of antibiotics. Once I was recovering and restarting work 1 month ago, I again became sick. The infection was not yet gone, so even more antibiotics and rest was needed. Needless to say, it took a lot of my energy and I needed a lot of rest.
Finally, the infection is really gone and my energy is coming back step-by-step now and I have started work again. I am terribly sorry to have kept you waiting for support. I will address all outstanding questions and e-mails step-by step and will be on the forum daily from today.
APP 2.0.0-beta47 will come soon as well, a lot of work was already completed before I became very ill, so the release is also nearly ready for you. Beta47 will be much faster actually. Many workflows will be more than 2x faster, mosaics can even be 10x faster than before because registration really received a major boost... all compared to beta46. Â Before I release it, I will make sure that everything is working properly and then I will release it.
Using a trial license with a small set of images I was able to successfully complete an integration and do some post-process work.
Now I'm using a larger data set of 130 images with flat, bias and darks. During my 1st attempt, the stacking process stopped at "Creating Lights stack...Completed 30%". I thought it was just going slowly and I went to bed. The next morning it was still like that.
2nd attempt, it stopped in exactly the same place.
Has anyone else had this happen?
FYI: My Macbook's HD is VERY full, with only about 8GB free space. The data and working directory are on an external drive that has over 400GB free space.
(Before you suggest I make more space on the internal...it's not possible. I've even deleted some things that I need. There is just no more room!)
As a followup: I tried a smaller piece of the same data, only 5 images. It completed successfully, but paused for quite a while at the same place...then finished.
Is it possible that the process simply takes a VERY long time? How long should it take for a large set of images?
I've got a 2015 macbook pro, with 8GB of ram. APP cpu usage is set to maximum.
Using a trial license with a small set of images I was able to successfully complete an integration and do some post-process work.
Now I'm using a larger data set of 130 images with flat, bias and darks. During my 1st attempt, the stacking process stopped at "Creating Lights stack...Completed 30%". I thought it was just going slowly and I went to bed. The next morning it was still like that.
2nd attempt, it stopped in exactly the same place.
Has anyone else had this happen?
FYI: My Macbook's HD is VERY full, with only about 8GB free space. The data and working directory are on an external drive that has over 400GB free space.
(Before you suggest I make more space on the internal...it's not possible. I've even deleted some things that I need. There is just no more room!)
Hi Cheetah,
I have encountered this problem myself. But I have a clue on where the problem is.
If the integration is at 30%, the images to be integrated are all loaded with registration and normalization parameters applied. At this point, the LNC module will start if turned on, or integration should immediately start. My guess is that LNC is turned on and that the LNC calculation does not finish, which should point to bug in that module that I need to fix. Is my assumption correct that you enabled LNC?
If you didn't enable LNC, then I really need more information:
- I would need output of the console (last several hundred lines up until integration starts at 30%)
- screesnhot of the bottom frame list panel with all analytical results
This information could really help in understanding what's happening.
Integration on an external drive is perfectly possible, but you will need to be aware that MacOS doesn't natively support writing on NTFS or FAT drives very well. I had all sorts of problems with my macbook 2016 and a NTFS formatted external drive (formatted with windows 7) using MacOS's native support for the NTFS file system. Only after installing paragon NTFS the problems were solved. So perhaps, this could be the problem that you face, an incompatibility between MacOS and your external drive. Can you write files to the external drive without problems from your Macbook, if so, then disregard this option.
Kind regards,
Mabula
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As a followup: I tried a smaller piece of the same data, only 5 images. It completed successfully, but paused for quite a while at the same place...then finished.
Is it possible that the process simply takes a VERY long time? How long should it take for a large set of images?
I've got a 2015 macbook pro, with 8GB of ram. APP cpu usage is set to maximum.
I assume then, that there is abug with LNC if you turned that on. Else, I suspect write problems to the external drive.
No the process shouldn't take very long. Integration of 400 16MP RGB frames only took about 70 minutes with 4 CPU cores and 4GB of memory:
See test 4 for results on both an M2 SSD as a conventional SATA 600 drive. Integration time is almost the same.
So you do encounter problematic behaviour which needs to be solved. Cna you share the extra information that I asked for in my previous post?
Kind regards,
Mabula
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Hi there. Thank you for your response!
I switched the external hard drive from USB 2 to Thunderbolt. That sped things up. I also removed about half of the frames (which were bad and I hadn't realized it). The processing completed in about 4 hours.
Yes, LNC was enabled.
I've done several more batches of photos. All seem to pause at the 30% mark, but then continue quite quickly to 100%.
Perhaps I should start a new thread, but is APP suitable to Lunar photography? I tried processing images with NO stars and the process stopped. Is there a way to make this work?
Hi @cheetah,
While LNC is running, progress stays at 30% so that's normal. If you are using a lot of frames, then LNC can take very long. I probably will adjust and upgrade LNC to solve this within the coming months. When LNC is finished (check in console) then the progress indicator will start running again indeed.
No, lunar photography are planetary is not possible (yet). That requries a different registration engine. It's something for the future to implement. APP will only register images with stars currently. The star locations are what APP uses for registration.
Kind regards,
Mabula
