Posts for: BigDale
Jul 22, 2021 10:25:45 #
When I got home from our weekly firehouse drill I spotted the moon looking quite red because smoke from the wildfires out west was being carried to us on the jet stream. Because the moon was mostly behind trees (we have woods behind our house) I used my Sigma 150mm-600mm zoom hand held and found a spot that didn't have many branches in the way.
May 11, 2021 22:42:35 #
Great shots. We had a nest in the woods behind our house that just fledged 2 great horned owlets. 
May 11, 2021 22:31:13 #
I spotted a red-tail hawk struggling with a squirrel that it just caught at our back gate to the woods.
Apr 3, 2021 15:53:27 #
Apr 3, 2021 15:41:19 #
Nice capture and she is definitely keeping an eye on you
Apr 3, 2021 14:26:15 #
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Mar 14, 2021 17:26:31 #
Feb 28, 2021 20:00:05 #
With wildlife life we mostly have to play the hand we’re dealt, well played 👍👍👍
Feb 16, 2021 14:31:49 #
Feb 16, 2021 14:27:05 #
Feb 16, 2021 13:07:03 #
I like your hotshoe lazer pointer holder. Do you find that it is accurate enough to aim a telephoto lens in the 200mm range? Did you buy or make it?
Feb 16, 2021 12:51:48 #
notBert wrote:
HI, br Thanx for your info.My present OS is Ubuntu... (show quote)
I think that I found the conversion that you need in the Siril forum. I can't try it because I don't have that format. https://discuss.pixls.us/t/siril-colour-management/22208/8 I hope this helps.
Feb 16, 2021 11:51:50 #
Hi notBert
I think that you might be able to convert your Sony raws then stack with Siril. I would try to convert to 16 or 32 bit tiffs I think that would be close to the raw data. You may be able to convert using software from Sony ( run in Wine) to a recognized format. I sort my images in RawTherapee first. First I make a note of the image # were the lights,darks, flats and biases start and end. Then I go through my lights ranking them with the star system looking at tracking errors, airplanes etc. that might throw off the stacking process . I write down the #s of the images I want to stack and copy them into the lights sub folder.
It takes the software developers a while to start recognizing a new camera’s raw format. Try to get the latest versions of Siril and RawTherapee from their websites, the repositories tend to be several versions behind.
From what I can understand SER files are video format that would be used for stacking planetary images but I’m not sure.
I think that you might be able to convert your Sony raws then stack with Siril. I would try to convert to 16 or 32 bit tiffs I think that would be close to the raw data. You may be able to convert using software from Sony ( run in Wine) to a recognized format. I sort my images in RawTherapee first. First I make a note of the image # were the lights,darks, flats and biases start and end. Then I go through my lights ranking them with the star system looking at tracking errors, airplanes etc. that might throw off the stacking process . I write down the #s of the images I want to stack and copy them into the lights sub folder.
It takes the software developers a while to start recognizing a new camera’s raw format. Try to get the latest versions of Siril and RawTherapee from their websites, the repositories tend to be several versions behind.
From what I can understand SER files are video format that would be used for stacking planetary images but I’m not sure.
Feb 15, 2021 17:09:29 #
I like this processing best. Good job 👍