Mark Knecht

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• 3 minute exposures are an interesting question. Having just gotten this AVX mount I'm working my way up in terms of exposure times. I do not currently have any guiding hardware so I'm limited to how well I do polar alignment and after that how well …

  in Strategies for stacking more and more subs? Comment by Mark Knecht December 2022
• BTW - to be clear I did NOT mean adding any rc-astro tools to the actual FastTrack training. I only meant having done FastTrack where might I add them into that basic flow, if anywhere.

  in Any simple workflow for integrating the rc-astro tools into FastTrack? Comment by Mark Knecht December 2022
• Wade - Like you I am a Kubuntu user so it seems we are seeing similar issues.  I'm slowly getting through Adam's new videos. Sorting them into directories seemed to work fairly well for grabbing a reasonable number of files and keeping it all straig…

  in Unfortunate naming on the new FastTrack data? Comment by Mark Knecht November 2022
• Thanks but I've already separated them into individual directories on my data server and backed up the data server to my NAS backup server. I'm just pressing on with the new FastTrack videos which is more fun.

  in Unfortunate naming on the new FastTrack data? Comment by Mark Knecht November 2022
• Great explanations. Thanks.  I'm not meaning to complain. It's just a bit different than the previous FastTrack data and I was surprised. Having the dates getting intermingled is likely to make Blinking before alignment more problematic but it's not…

  in Unfortunate naming on the new FastTrack data? Comment by Mark Knecht November 2022
• I will offer that if the files are kept in separate subdirectories then at least they stay ordered that way. I think there's a way in WBPP to load all subdirectories so maybe that's the way to manage these files?

  in Unfortunate naming on the new FastTrack data? Comment by Mark Knecht November 2022
• Old discussion but I did eventually get this SkyWatcher AZ-GTi mount running in equatorial mode with 60 second subs. Stacking is much more efficient and the results are better.

  in Batch processing short subs into longer subs? Comment by Mark Knecht November 2022
• BTW - I completely agree with the comment as to getting a better mount. However I'm in the learning phase and don't mind the minor frustrations this mount causes me to endure while learning. I suspect when I do buy a new mount I'll be a lot more edu…

  in Batch processing short subs into longer subs? Comment by Mark Knecht February 2022
• Thanks for the answer. I think there's some good potential here. The software I'm using (KStars & Ekos - Open Source stuff) does have the ability to append a time stamp. Possibly a simple Python program that understands the time stamp well enoug…

  in Batch processing short subs into longer subs? Comment by Mark Knecht February 2022
• I will investigate. Thanks very much!

  in Strategies for dealing with out-of-focus exposures Comment by Mark Knecht February 2021