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by the_traveler
Tue Aug 01, 2023 2:52 am
Forum: General Discussion
Topic: Advice on images captured on a Alt-Az Mount
Replies: 6
Views: 18880

Re: Advice on images captured on a Alt-Az Mount

A good article on how to estimate exposure times based on your latitude and the targets altitude and azimuth. The technique is applicable to any alt/az mount. https://telescopemount.org/short-exposure-alt-az-astrophotography-learn-how-to-get-great-results/ About 2/3 down the page you'll find some ch...
by the_traveler
Wed Jul 12, 2023 1:49 pm
Forum: Bug Reports
Topic: Star Tools closes immediately on file open
Replies: 6
Views: 78613

Re: Star Tools closes immediately on file open

Update: I installed ST on my Lubuntu 20.04 PC and it runs fine in that version. I opened several .fits files, some just stacked and others with some stretching/processing and all opened as they should. I'd surmise that this install of 22.10 is the culprit then. Not surprised really. These non-LTS ve...
by the_traveler
Wed Jul 12, 2023 1:15 pm
Forum: Bug Reports
Topic: Star Tools closes immediately on file open
Replies: 6
Views: 78613

Re: Star Tools closes immediately on file open

Howdy and thanks for the replies. Does the non-GPU version work as expected? I get the same problem with the non-GPU execution as well. Unfortunately we've seen in the past that these kind of problems are hard to analyse. I totally understand. I've used LINUX for over 25 yrs myself and it seems ever...
by the_traveler
Wed Jul 12, 2023 12:46 am
Forum: Bug Reports
Topic: Star Tools closes immediately on file open
Replies: 6
Views: 78613

Star Tools closes immediately on file open

1st post. Sorry it had to be a potential bug report. I recently downloaded the latest stable trial version 1.8.527MR2 for Linux. I simply unzipped it into it's "distro" folder then execute StarTools-Linux64-GPU. I'm running Lubuntu Linux, based on Ubuntu 22.10 and have an nVidia GTX 1070 card with t...