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General / MLT real time preview windows is Black...

« Last post by dpastern on 2020 March 04 21:52:55 »

So, I'm just playing with an RGB image (it has been permanently stretched via histogramtransformation tool).  I open up MLT, select linear mask, preview mask and inverted mask and then click on the real time preview button.  Real time preview window opens, but it is completely Black. 

What am I doing wrong? 

Every tutorial I see on this shows the mask working in the real time preview window...

Very confused!

edit: I think it's cos the image is now non-linear, and MLT is designed for application to linear images...am I correct in my understanding?

Cheers,

Dave

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Announcements / Re: PixInsight 1.8.8-5 Released

« Last post by dwormuth on 2020 March 04 21:26:35 »

Running on MacOS Catalina 10.15.2, once I install, I have to force quit PixInsight. Never launches a window

After I upgraded to Catalina 10.15.3 this ran without reinstall. Perhaps some 10.15.2 gremlin is undiscovered.

Dave

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General / Ha will not stack?

« Last post by Jkulin on 2020 March 04 17:09:59 »

I wonder if anyone could help please?

I've got about 5 hours of M82, but only managed 5 x 600s of Ha because the clouds came in.

I've used the batchprocessing script and everything apart from the Ha stacks nicely.

I have tried a number of times to stack the Ha on it's own and it comes up saying it cannot find enough stars.

The files calibrated fine, and the image visually looks like it is all aligned.

Could it be because I'm using 3nm 2" unmounted Chroma filters that there just isn't enough data there to stack?

My masters were a bit old so I have spent the last couple of days recreating new superbias's and Master Darks.

I don't have any noisy subs with any of the other filters and my NB images during the winter have turned out really well.

I'm really at quite a loss and would welcome any ones thoughts.

I've uploaded a zip file of the master dark, superbias, Ha master flat and the 5 x 600s Ha lights, would anyone mind having a look and seeing what I am doing wrong: - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Sh9ofzpDQhvmiRqrVU4WJyQmCvJERQyw/view?usp=sharing

Your help would be much appreciated.

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General / Re: Unshading process windows does not activate it

« Last post by Rainer on 2020 March 04 10:59:39 »

Hi Rainer!
Yes i notice the same thing under Win10.  I thought it was just my machine for some weird reason.  You are correct though, most buttons (like Add Files) certainly require two clicks now usually.

Andy

Thanks for the confirmation and that was not the case in v1.8.8-4 or before ...

 

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General / Re: PixInsight 1.8.8-5 Released - StarNet module installation

« Last post by fmeschia on 2020 March 04 09:40:25 »

from what i read, the problem is that there is a compile-time flag, which can be set in xcode at the time the application is built, that enforces this check (that all dylibs loaded by the application are signed). i think that explains why PI -4 and earlier have no problem, as ostensibly they were built without this flag set. i don't know what version(s) of OSX this flag would apply to, but i know on 10.14 the unsigned module won't load.

rob

That flag, if set, is already enforced in 10.14.

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General / Re: PixInsight 1.8.8-5 Released - StarNet module installation

« Last post by pfile on 2020 March 04 08:53:49 »

from what i read, the problem is that there is a compile-time flag, which can be set in xcode at the time the application is built, that enforces this check (that all dylibs loaded by the application are signed). i think that explains why PI -4 and earlier have no problem, as ostensibly they were built without this flag set. i don't know what version(s) of OSX this flag would apply to, but i know on 10.14 the unsigned module won't load.

rob

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General / Re: PixInsight 1.8.8-5 Released - StarNet module installation

« Last post by fmeschia on 2020 March 04 08:41:02 »

In the apple documentation from version 10.15.x all modules have to be notarized by apple otherwise Gatekeeper will reject the request, this is what they say:

Beginning in macOS 10.15, all software built after June 1, 2019, and distributed with Developer ID must be notarized. However, you aren't required to notarize software that you distribute through the Mac App Store because the App Store submission process already includes equivalent security checks.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/xcode/notarizing_macos_software_before_distribution

Yes but that’s not the issue, because it is already broken in 10.14.6 which doesn’t enforce notarization yet.

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General / Re: PixInsight 1.8.8-5 Released - StarNet module installation

« Last post by dave_galera on 2020 March 04 08:17:22 »

In the apple documentation from version 10.15.x all modules have to be notarized by apple otherwise Gatekeeper will reject the request, this is what they say:

Beginning in macOS 10.15, all software built after June 1, 2019, and distributed with Developer ID must be notarized. However, you aren't required to notarize software that you distribute through the Mac App Store because the App Store submission process already includes equivalent security checks.

https://developer.apple.com/documentation/xcode/notarizing_macos_software_before_distribution

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General / Re: PixInsight 1.8.8-5 Released - StarNet module installation

« Last post by pfile on 2020 March 04 07:41:26 »

Hi Juan, Rob %u2013
Do you know if all the module dylibs need to be signed by a certificate belonging to the same team id? I%u2019m asking because I tried signing the StarNet module with my self-signed certificate (which is obviously trusted on my local machine), but still PI doesn%u2019t %u201Csee%u201D it. Or maybe is an actual Apple-issued certificate required?
Francesco

It also has to be notarized by Apple otherwise Gateway will throw it out

i don't know for sure about the team thing, this is what prevented me from paying apple $100. i should have asked on sjaa-astroimaging if anyone already had a developer certificate.

here's how to find out what the exact error is though - quit PI, edit your ~/Library/PixInsight/PixInsight.plist to manually add the starnet module, and restart PI. here is what the lines look like but you'll have to increment the module number and perhaps add these lines at the end of the section rather than in any random place:

        <key>000.Modules.00000046</key>
   <string>@@pxi_bin_dir/StarNet-pxm.dylib</string>

when PI fails to load the module it should put up a dialog with the error message and the message will also be on the console. hopefully that will illuminate the situation further.

rob

edit: i didn't read your message carefully enough - thought you had a paid apple account - i already tried a self-signed certificate and that doesn't work. thought you had an apple cert. i guess i might as well renew my apple developer ID to find out, it's just $100.

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Bug Reports / Re: Cannot Attach Image To A Post

« Last post by dave_galera on 2020 March 04 06:20:58 »

Hi Juan,

I ask the SMF forum as to what they changed to fix the problem and I got this reply:

In my case it was a server side issue. I ahve a dedicated server so went into WHM and change the php memory allocation from default (I think it was 256 or 512MB normally) to 1024. That did the trick.

 Somehow mine got upped to 2048 and it caused the server to do all sorts of things.

This reply contracts itself, so I am assuming that he set memory_limit = 1024M in the PHP ini file.
Also on a previous comment Your system is choking on memory, well I have been programming in PHP for the last 18 years and to me this comment is an absolute load of rubbish, my experiance with PHP is that you get an out of memory error if you try and allocated space when there is insufficent because memory_limit is set too low.

So as a suggestion can we proceed as follows:

1) Determine what the current value of the PHP ini setting memory_limit is and increase it to 1024M if necessary;

2) If 1) above does not fix the problem can you copy the Apache log files to a dropbox and I will work my way thru it to see if I can see the problem....maybe try to upload an image just prior to dumping the log file.