cutepetgroomer Posted September 8, 2014 Share Posted September 8, 2014 Registax has appered to not want to work right. When I click stack about half way through I guess it stops working and shuts down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesF Posted September 8, 2014 Share Posted September 8, 2014 What sort of images are you working with?Could be worth trying fewer of them to see what happens. Or of course the old Windows favourite of rebooting the machine.James Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ronin Posted September 8, 2014 Share Posted September 8, 2014 Are you feeding Registax a movie file .aviIf it is jpegs I suspect it doesn't like them.If this is for stacking the moon shots you did I am guessing this is the problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Ward Posted September 8, 2014 Share Posted September 8, 2014 A little more info would be useful , what camera are you using and what format are you shooting in ... ?Registax has no problem with JPEGs but you'll lose a lot of detail if you shoot in JPEG to start with.Always shoot in RAW with a DSLR then convert them to TIFFs for Reg with either Canon's DPP or with PIPP.With an AVI file from a webcam or planetary camera I'd recommend AutoStakkert2 over Registax. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cutepetgroomer Posted September 8, 2014 Author Share Posted September 8, 2014 i converted a few to tiff files. I have to convert them from the format that the iphone transfers them over as anyways.. I also have an old point and shoot digital camera that has two f numbers on them f=9.3mm and f2.8.. and produces images in 4.1 megapixels. it can also be used as a webcam as well.... and I haven't quite yet figured out how to mess with the settings much but I can change settings on it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Ward Posted September 8, 2014 Share Posted September 8, 2014 Can you pop a few of the TIFFs into Dropbox and post a link so we can have a play and see where the problem lies ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davefrance Posted September 8, 2014 Share Posted September 8, 2014 Registax has appered to not want to work right. When I click stack about half way through I guess it stops working and shuts down.You don't say what computer equipment you have but I suspect you are running out of memory.Try this, make sure you have as little as possible running in the background and close all other programs/apps. Then when you stack with Registax, if it says 4 CPU's on the top bar change that to 2 CPU's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Ward Posted September 8, 2014 Share Posted September 8, 2014 I doubt it's a memory problem , I regularly have Registax open three ways stacking 100+ 59Mb TIFF files three times simultaneously , and AS!2 stacking AVIs at the same time , all on a simple laptop ... unless the OP's running a ZXSpectrum ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davefrance Posted September 8, 2014 Share Posted September 8, 2014 I doubt it's a memory problem , I regularly have Registax open three ways stacking 100+ 59Mb TIFF files three times simultaneously , and AS!2 stacking AVIs at the same time , all on a simple laptop ... unless the OP's running a ZXSpectrum ... It has happened to me several times in the past. If you have a 2 core processor which supports hyper-threading i.e can run 4 threads, Registax can detect the 4 threads as 4 cores and the program can freeze. Setting the number of cores to 2 may solve the problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Ward Posted September 8, 2014 Share Posted September 8, 2014 I stand corrected ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cutepetgroomer Posted September 8, 2014 Author Share Posted September 8, 2014 I have an hp mini notebook and I frequently move images to an external image device. It is running windows 7. I just don't know if it has a 2 core processor or not. My husband is constantly saying he wants to get me a New laptop Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cutepetgroomer Posted September 8, 2014 Author Share Posted September 8, 2014 Can you pop a few of the TIFFs into Dropbox and post a link so we can have a play and see where the problem lies ... yeah I can as soon as I am able to Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Ward Posted September 8, 2014 Share Posted September 8, 2014 Would be worth running them through PIPP first to centre the disc and also crop away the unwanted sky , this will reduce the file size considerably and will help Reg as he'll not be using all that unnecessary memory on black nothingness. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davefrance Posted September 8, 2014 Share Posted September 8, 2014 I have an hp mini notebook and I frequently move images to an external image device. It is running windows 7. I just don't know if it has a 2 core processor or not. My husband is constantly saying he wants to get me a New laptopIf it is fairly new it could possibly be 2 core but I suspect you may only have 1GB RAM. Depending upon the model it may be upgradeable but not sure whether it would be enough to improve things. Good suggestion from Steve above, worth a try. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cutepetgroomer Posted September 8, 2014 Author Share Posted September 8, 2014 What is pipp? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamesF Posted September 8, 2014 Share Posted September 8, 2014 What is pipp?https://sites.google.com/site/astropipp/James Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davefrance Posted September 8, 2014 Share Posted September 8, 2014 What is pipp?Stands for Planetary Imaging PreProcessor, can centre objects, crop etc. and, hopefully, make Registax's work easier. Free download https://sites.google.com/site/astropipp/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cutepetgroomer Posted September 9, 2014 Author Share Posted September 9, 2014 May just have to try it out.. Is it free? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cutepetgroomer Posted September 9, 2014 Author Share Posted September 9, 2014 ookay I decided to give pipp a try, and I think I must be doing something wrong. I get a tiff something compression error when its almost done.... and I"m not even sure if I set it up correctly in the first place. I selected for lunar image... then no clue... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davefrance Posted September 9, 2014 Share Posted September 9, 2014 ookay I decided to give pipp a try, and I think I must be doing something wrong. I get a tiff something compression error when its almost done.... and I"m not even sure if I set it up correctly in the first place. I selected for lunar image... then no clue... This is a complete guess, but the TIFF files that you are creating may be 16 or 32 bit. As PIPP only outputs in 8 bit TFF format, it maybe that it will only accest 8 bit TIFF files as a input. Failing that I have no idea other than the possibility of insufficient memory. You could try changing the output to an AVI file on the output tab. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cutepetgroomer Posted September 9, 2014 Author Share Posted September 9, 2014 Well, I guess the fail problem was due to a mistake on my part. I did pip with a video from my iPhone (converted of course) and that part went pretty good. Have yet to try that in registax but I do have a question about it. Do I need align points on each frame? If so that could have been my issue in the first place. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Ward Posted September 9, 2014 Share Posted September 9, 2014 No ... Use the bar at the bottom to run through the frames until you find a nice crisp one , this will be used as the reference frame against which the others will be judged , if you've had PIPP reorder them then the best ones will show first. Set your align points on that frame and click Align.When the alignment is done the Limit box will light up , set the percentage to stack to about 80% and click on Limit and then on Optimise ( this allows you to save the final stack before sharpening , useful as you can revisit it numerous times if you want to practice Wavelets , if you hit the Optimise and Stack button Reg goes straight to Wavelets after stacking and then it's a faff to save)When the optimising is done press Stack and off it should go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cutepetgroomer Posted September 9, 2014 Author Share Posted September 9, 2014 Okay, does it matter the number of align points? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cutepetgroomer Posted September 9, 2014 Author Share Posted September 9, 2014 As of right now I am doing registax after pipp of a short video I did and so far so good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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