HA - New AR 8-5-18 and two older ones.

[Owmuchonomy]

The last of the sunny summer days for a while I fear.  I just packed away when the heavens opened.  Anyway, the seeing was a bit more consistent than yesterday so I captured the new AR creeping around the NW rim (yet uncategorised) mentioned first thing this morning by @michael.h.f.wilkinson and a couple of older ones (one is AR2708).  Usual ZWO ASI 174MM and ImPPG.

I can only get 50 fps out of my 174 (USB 3 model running on USB 2) whatever I do so can I assume it is because it won't read any faster to my hard drive?  I am not very good with computer hardware and hate PCs with a passion but I'm stuck with that for Firecapture.  I will try @JamesF oaCapture on my MacBook Pro again if I get chance.

New AR

AR2708

Old AR?

 

[Davey-T]

Nice images Chris, as you say new AR coinciding with a change in the weather, I missed most of the last due to the clouds.

Dave

[xtreemchaos]

great shots Chris, lovely detail mate. you should be getting more frames outa your 174 mate, i get 68 fps outa my 120mc at 800x800 usb 2 and i havnt a ssd in my HP. thanks, charl.

[Owmuchonomy]

1 hour ago, xtreemchaos said:

great shots Chris, lovely detail mate. you should be getting more frames outa your 174 mate, i get 68 fps outa my 120mc at 800x800 usb 2 and i havnt a ssd in my HP. thanks, charl.

Yeh I know but I’m not very good with the hardware. Any ideas?

[xtreemchaos]

have you manualy raised your virtual memory ? its default lets windows set it but its useally set very low, depending how fast your cpu is, my processer is a quad core 2.2 ghz and i have a base off 2044 and a max of 6044. charl.

what it dos is give you more page file it speeds everything up, but you have to try different values on diff pcs.

 

 

[Lowjiber]

Good work, Chris.

You didn't say what your exposure setting is.  I use the 174 all the time and speed is never an issue.  Charl's suggestion regarding virtual memory may help some.

Thanks for the shares.

Clear Skies

[Owmuchonomy]

4 hours ago, Lowjiber said:

Good work, Chris.

You didn't say what your exposure setting is.  I use the 174 all the time and speed is never an issue.  Charl's suggestion regarding virtual memory may help some.

Thanks for the shares.

Clear Skies

Hi, for solar, exposure is not the issue and is usually in the region of 3-5 ms. I use an ROI of around 720 x 960.

[Owmuchonomy]

7 hours ago, xtreemchaos said:

have you manualy raised your virtual memory ? its default lets windows set it but its useally set very low, depending how fast your cpu is, my processer is a quad core 2.2 ghz and i have a base off 2044 and a max of 6044. charl.

what it dos is give you more page file it speeds everything up, but you have to try different values on diff pcs.

 

 

OK Charl I have reset it so will try next time Sol appears.  Cheers mate.

[Pete Presland]

Nicely captured.