Dealing with fits....
Mar 14, 2023 19:53:27 #
So, I find a perfect night with everything working fantabulously, and I get a warning I'm out of storage room.
Hummm... always some new problem.
So I wake up with an idea. Use a USB port multiplier in reverse and poke a couple of USB storage drives in it to dump the images into.
Kills two problems with one stone.
I was letting NINA store as it wanted to by default, to the C drive. Now, I have it storing to drive D: or drive E: in the USB 3.0 port box. A couple of 64G thumb drives I got to transfer .fit files to my desk computer for processing.
My mount computer is just to run things and to Wi-Fi to my inside computer during sessions. That's its job. And to store the images temporarily.
I have a StarTech hub I wasn't using because something went flooey with its power distribution. But the data side of it still works fine. So, my experiment seems to work just fine.
Still waiting for the Pineapple Express/Atmospheric River/Soup D Jour the weather guessers are babbling about to go away. All I know is I'm done with this crappy weather and ready to get through the clouds to the stars again.
So if anybody is struggling with storing your huge .fit files like I was, you might want to try plugging in a USB hub and some thumb drives to deposit to.
I'm just connecting my USB3 data cable from my telescope USB3 hub to the USB3 hub on my computers USB3 port. My main camera is the only USB3 component on my equipment. Everything else is USB2.
Hummm... always some new problem.
So I wake up with an idea. Use a USB port multiplier in reverse and poke a couple of USB storage drives in it to dump the images into.
Kills two problems with one stone.
I was letting NINA store as it wanted to by default, to the C drive. Now, I have it storing to drive D: or drive E: in the USB 3.0 port box. A couple of 64G thumb drives I got to transfer .fit files to my desk computer for processing.
My mount computer is just to run things and to Wi-Fi to my inside computer during sessions. That's its job. And to store the images temporarily.
I have a StarTech hub I wasn't using because something went flooey with its power distribution. But the data side of it still works fine. So, my experiment seems to work just fine.
Still waiting for the Pineapple Express/Atmospheric River/Soup D Jour the weather guessers are babbling about to go away. All I know is I'm done with this crappy weather and ready to get through the clouds to the stars again.
So if anybody is struggling with storing your huge .fit files like I was, you might want to try plugging in a USB hub and some thumb drives to deposit to.
I'm just connecting my USB3 data cable from my telescope USB3 hub to the USB3 hub on my computers USB3 port. My main camera is the only USB3 component on my equipment. Everything else is USB2.
Mar 15, 2023 03:16:39 #
SonnyE wrote:
So, I find a perfect night with everything working... (show quote)
Hi Mate
i too struggled with storage of Fits files thus I ended up connecting a 1TB external drive to the lappy. I also keep a copy of my dark library upon the drive :)
Mar 15, 2023 17:37:38 #
Marc G wrote:
Hi Mate
i too struggled with storage of Fits files thus I ended up connecting a 1TB external drive to the lappy. I also keep a copy of my dark library upon the drive :)
i too struggled with storage of Fits files thus I ended up connecting a 1TB external drive to the lappy. I also keep a copy of my dark library upon the drive :)
Hi Marc!
Yep, I've done that before with smaller portable hard drives. But I basically move my thumb drives between the two computers.
That way the mount laptop runs things, and the image files are now being stored in the portable thumb drive and can be transferred into the desktop to play with.
I found some 2TB USB thumb drives on Ebay. And a card reader for a micro 128GB card I have.
I bet I can get a couple of objects stored now.
Danged .fit files!Apr 3, 2023 18:50:31 #
Why not just connect a 2 Tb SSD drive to the system with a USB cable?
Apr 6, 2023 17:09:26 #
Hi,
I wound up using a USB hub I had laying around. (StarTech ST 7 300, powered hub.)
I plugged it into my USB 3 port on my Mount laptop, and have 3 of the thumb drives plugged into it. (2-64 Gb, and one of 2 Tb for picture storage)
Then I plug my USB cable from my mount into it as well.
Gives me some bulk drive storage (D:, E:, F:), and extra ports. (The 2 TB is drive F: as in fudge that thing is big)
They really made things better.
The 2 Terabyte USB drives are a bit unworthy because they are USB2. But they work. And it's hard to tell there is anything on them because there is so much storage room.
I have USB3 from my camera to my laptop for the best speed I can get between the computer and the camera. But there is a lot of USB2, like my guide camera, and my focuser, and filter wheel. Things work well though.
I wound up using a USB hub I had laying around. (StarTech ST 7 300, powered hub.)
I plugged it into my USB 3 port on my Mount laptop, and have 3 of the thumb drives plugged into it. (2-64 Gb, and one of 2 Tb for picture storage)
Then I plug my USB cable from my mount into it as well.
Gives me some bulk drive storage (D:, E:, F:), and extra ports. (The 2 TB is drive F: as in fudge that thing is big)
They really made things better.
The 2 Terabyte USB drives are a bit unworthy because they are USB2. But they work. And it's hard to tell there is anything on them because there is so much storage room.
I have USB3 from my camera to my laptop for the best speed I can get between the computer and the camera. But there is a lot of USB2, like my guide camera, and my focuser, and filter wheel. Things work well though.
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