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5 minutes ago, fireballxl5 said:

as Gav suggests, maybe you just need to find the folder where ffmpeg.exe lives and include the full path to this folder, something like "C:\win64\usefulprogs\ffmpeg.exe"

 

It looks like I had to download from the web, there's a link here https://ffmpeg.org/download.html

 

Downloaded that and put it somewhere - Pointed PI to it and the same error message......... 

1 minute ago, fireballxl5 said:

I notice that I'm creating an AVI rather than MP4. Maybe there is an issue with the libx264 codec on your PC?

Nope - Avi is the same error message

Just now, PhotoGav said:

My guess is that the 'Program:' dialog is not pointing to 'ffmpeg.exe' correctly? So it 'Failed to start external process'. Check the path to 'ffmpeg.exe' and put that in the Program: setting. Hopefully it will then work.

And in normal speak that means? LOL!!!!!

Ahh, it looks like I don't have the relevant program or something..... your top line is populated very differently to mine...... I checked the arguments on the PI forum and it should give me a 0.5s clip..... but I guess it won't work with whatever that top line means

With PI the error message is as follows

10 minutes ago, fireballxl5 said:

PI's blink function does work, I've updated my previous post with a video that I created using it🙂

But how did you actually create the video? ..... I can't do that bit! I've got the files in 'blink' then the video tab doesn't do anything but produce an error message when I try to run.

I've got both Terakado (mag 17.8) and Conrada (mag 15.7) in the same image.

2 hours ago, Oddsocks said:

Do you have Photoshop Sara?

It’s fairly simple to create .gifs in PS and I have made a few NEO and Lunar gifs over the years in PS 5 & 6.

https://blog.hubspot.com/marketing/how-to-create-animated-gif-quick-tip-ht

Never tried in PixInsight and there doesn’t seem to be a tutorial on their resources pages but I’ll have a look later this morning when we get back home after swimming....

William.

Thanks William.

2 hours ago, PhotoGav said:

Sara, here’s Adobe’s own Photoshop animated gif tutorial:

https://helpx.adobe.com/uk/photoshop/how-to/make-animated-gif.html

Works a treat!

Cheers Gav.

1 hour ago, Star101 said:

Hi Sara,

I have used this easy online site to create GIFs

https://www.onlineconverter.com/mov-to-gif

 

I'll take a look - Thanks.

41 minutes ago, alexbb said:

If everything above fails, PIPP will easily do

I've never used PIPP - Will it auto stretch the fits files too?

38 minutes ago, fireballxl5 said:

+1 for PIPP👍

Thanks!

2 minutes ago, david_taurus83 said:

I'm sure Blink has the ability to export as a gif but I think it needs some sort of add on to work.

There is a video tab, but I can't get it to work........ what a surprise!!!

I saw the other night that I have an asteroid in a few of my exposures and I'd like to make them into a gif. I used to use Maxim for this, it was really easy, but it is no longer on my new computer. I am looking at Pixinsight as the blink function looks perfect for the animated gif I want to do and there's a video function on the tabs.

Guess what ............ In typical PI style it is unfathomable and there's no information I can find online that tells me actually what to press. to get it going. Silly me would have thought that 'run' was the correct button but it would seem not!!

Can anyone help or suggest something easy to use?

Good points made about trying to get an imaging circle that will cover your full frame camera. I think I'd be going to a very friendly retailer and telling them exactly what you want and making it clear that you will be returning the scope if it doesn't entirely cover your full frame sensor. Don't let anyone say that it's OK if the edges aren't great, its only a small amount and you can crop it out...... No you want to cover the whole frame and that's that.

The Tak FSQ106 is the obvious answer when knowing the imaging circle needed - The rest I think will be a little suck it and see (hence the friendly retailer!) 

Aren't there some WO scopes claiming that their imaging circle is sufficient to cover a full frame sensor?

Do you have a budget in mind? What imaging will you use it for..... Narrowband predominantly or LRGB as well? And what camera will you be using? The sensor size could affect the imaging circle of the scope...... 

I bought a set of 3nm Chroma narrowband filters..... I am very happy with them 👍🏻

Love the lighter touch colours you have here Carole. A resounding success I'd say 👍🏻👍🏻

Yes

No problem for my EQ8 to do an auto meridian flip 👍🏻

Great to see you back John ???? I'm glad that you are in a position to return and I look forward to seeing you around ??

Glad that you got it all working well Martin ??????

Hi Miguel and welcome to SGL...... Oooooo, Valladolid is on my list of places to visit

Lovely image and superb processing ??????

On 18/02/2019 at 17:04, DaveS said:

I'm now trying to decide whether to have them fitted during the assembly, but if dew isn't a big problem I may forgo them, possibly adding Kendrick tapes later if I find dew occuring. I know Sara @swag72 had an ODK10 at one point, but she is in sunny, dry Spain, not damp grey UK .

I do get some really bad dew out here at certain times of the year. I never found that the ODK dewed up and I just ran with the fans.......

4 minutes ago, Tom OD said:

Hi Sara,

Sorry thought I had replied to this. I m powering it from the Eagle. I can switch it to the Dragonfly / Mains.

Tom

That would be the thing I would try...... get the power from a proper clean power supply for the Mesu and see if that helps.

5 minutes ago, steppenwolf said:

Funnily enough, we did discuss power as I felt that the 12.4v from the Eagle was on the low side.

I found that my Eagle was very power specific...... anything under 13.8v and all sorts of things started happening.

Are you powering the mount from the Eagle power ports Tom? If so I would try removing this as a potential issue and power the Mesu through a power pack.

5 minutes ago, steppenwolf said:

 

I have no direct experience of the Eagle, Sara how stable do/did you find the USB connections?

Not very stable..... that's why I asked as I'm thinking its more unlikely to be a mount problem.

I wonder if it's a USB issue with the Eagle?