PIER-14 Sorting out narrowband exosure times on submitted jobs

It has been done

Steve

Thanks Steve. I will resubmit this evening

Coolio

Steve,

Going through the list again I see that job 4 is a duplicate of job 128. Both are a look at what we might need in terms of HDR data for M42. One of them can be deleted.

Morning

Just a quick question so I don't make a mistake :0

old_eyes P14 coor ID4 - is this the job you want deleted ?

Steve

Before I forget to mention this....

Job 14 may as well also go and be put back in when M31 rises again. you could perhaps then  re submit as a new M31 and add the HA for the extended HA regions that surround M31. It would be an epic back burner job IMO

This wide-field rig will really show it off well, Perhaps you could have a look yourselves and see if you agree on the merit

Steve

http://www.deepskycolors.com/archive/2017/01/01/Clouds-Of-Andromeda.html

Morning

Just a quick question so I don't make a mistake :0

old_eyes P14 coor ID4 - is this the job you want deleted ?

Steve

That's correct. it is identical to "P14 coor 128", which is next to it on the list.

Before I forget to mention this....

Job 14 may as well also go and be put back in when M31 rises again. you could perhaps then  re submit as a new M31 and add the HA for the extended HA regions that surround M31. It would be an epic back burner job IMO

This wide-field rig will really show it off well, Perhaps you could have a look yourselves and see if you agree on the merit

Steve

http://www.deepskycolors.com/archive/2017/01/01/Clouds-Of-Andromeda.html

An excellent idea Steve, but that's not one of mine, it is Ray's. I will email him with your suggestion.

I was kind of speaking to you as a group if I am honest but I will leave it with you pair to chat amongst yourselves  and decide

Steve

Morning

Just a quick question so I don't make a mistake :0

old_eyes P14 coor ID4 - is this the job you want deleted ?

Steve

That's correct. it is identical to "P14 coor 128", which is next to it on the list.

Done and all now removed from your submission list

I was kind of speaking to you as a group if I am honest but I will leave it with you pair to chat amongst yourselves  and decide

Steve

OK. Ray?

Hi,

Just came across this. Agreed Steve, please arrange for it to be removed. Regarding re-submission, I'll do as you suggest at the appropriate time.

Cheers,

Ray 

Done

Hi Richard,

Job 347 is still in the current Job queue.This is one remaining panel of the original Tadpoles/Flaming Star mosaic. You'd already requested removal of the other one I believe, and resubmitted both with revised numbers of exposures. Job 347 has so far captured 1 hour of data, so do we leave it to complete, or, request nicely that the one hours worth of useful data be downloaded to us and then remove it from the job list? 

Until now it has not been very easy to tie submissions and jobs together so the odd hiccup would have been expected. Hopefully now that we can add notes etc., checking things will become easier.

I think that right now there is enough to be going on with, but wondering when you'll be submitting those 2 great suggested giga-mosaics, Sadr region and North American nebula. Probably worth waiting until some earlier jobs complete so that they are not slowed down by competing jobs. I'm really looking forward to those mosaics, although I already did a mini-mosaic of the North American last year on pier 6. That extra panel will be gratefully received by me, though I guess not so much by my poor laptop.

Regarding your Heart and Soul, image that is, that's come out very well. You certainly have managed to get a good range of colours. The latest Cone nebula region colours are a success, love the golden brown  and the slightly more 3-d-ish look it gives to the image.  As I think Steve mentioned, another great thing about narrowband is that you're not tied to natural colours. So whatever pleases you most. I too have recently started favouring more brownish shades as they are more representative of dust.

When looking at images from some of the well known imagers, I wonder how they manage to get an almost kaleidoscopic look from just 3 filters. When they document the exposure numbers they used, often they'll be close to the same for each filter. When I do that I can never get anything like theirs. Nearly always a predominance of one colour. Even after combining in Pixmath to mix things up, they'll be very little change. It's either that these people are in an exclusive club, like the magic circle, where they only share their ideas amongst themselves, or, they are black belts in Photoshop. I realise that with many things there is a steep learning curve, but I'm beginning to feel that I'm starting to slide back down.

You're really getting on well with the jobs we've received Richard, I'm at bit bogged down right now with other things and also seeing if I can combine data collected here with some of my own collected a long time ago, when I still owned a telescope or two. Cannot remember the last time I switched on my mount. Probably rusted solid by now.

Let's hope the skies remain favourable when the moon starts interfering less during next week.

Cheers,  Ray

Hi Richard,

Job 347 is still in the current Job queue.This is one remaining panel of the original Tadpoles/Flaming Star mosaic. You'd already requested removal of the other one I believe, and resubmitted both with revised numbers of exposures. Job 347 has so far captured 1 hour of data, so do we leave it to complete, or, request nicely that the one hours worth of useful data be downloaded to us and then remove it from the job list? 

Until now it has not been very easy to tie submissions and jobs together so the odd hiccup would have been expected. Hopefully now that we can add notes etc., checking things will become easier.

I think that right now there is enough to be going on with, but wondering when you'll be submitting those 2 great suggested giga-mosaics, Sadr region and North American nebula. Probably worth waiting until some earlier jobs complete so that they are not slowed down by competing jobs. I'm really looking forward to those mosaics, although I already did a mini-mosaic of the North American last year on pier 6. That extra panel will be gratefully received by me, though I guess not so much by my poor laptop.

Regarding your Heart and Soul, image that is, that's come out very well. You certainly have managed to get a good range of colours. The latest Cone nebula region colours are a success, love the golden brown  and the slightly more 3-d-ish look it gives to the image.  As I think Steve mentioned, another great thing about narrowband is that you're not tied to natural colours. So whatever pleases you most. I too have recently started favouring more brownish shades as they are more representative of dust.

When looking at images from some of the well known imagers, I wonder how they manage to get an almost kaleidoscopic look from just 3 filters. When they document the exposure numbers they used, often they'll be close to the same for each filter. When I do that I can never get anything like theirs. Nearly always a predominance of one colour. Even after combining in Pixmath to mix things up, they'll be very little change. It's either that these people are in an exclusive club, like the magic circle, where they only share their ideas amongst themselves, or, they are black belts in Photoshop. I realise that with many things there is a steep learning curve, but I'm beginning to feel that I'm starting to slide back down.

You're really getting on well with the jobs we've received Richard, I'm at bit bogged down right now with other things and also seeing if I can combine data collected here with some of my own collected a long time ago, when I still owned a telescope or two. Cannot remember the last time I switched on my mount. Probably rusted solid by now.

Let's hope the skies remain favourable when the moon starts interfering less during next week.

Cheers,  Ray

Ray,

Thanks. I missed 347 as I just struck off all the jobs that had started on the grounds we would let them finish and decide what to do next. I wondered where the other panel had got to. I will sort that out.

On the mosaics, I will submit them now as Cygnus is rising at a reasonable time. What I have found, is that these datasets and processing put a real strain on my computer. I also have an 8TB drive just for astrophotography, and it is filling up swiftly. Each coloured narrowband image in 1.7GB, and the H&S 2-panel raw mosaic is 3GB. And, of course, they don't process all that quickly. You have to be careful which Pixinsight button you press! It is so different to working on images from my Atik 460ex (2750x2200). If a 2-panel mosaic slows my machine to a crawl, what will 4-panels do? 

Anyway, let's try it and see.