20 mar 2026

z420 sata vs nvme

 We have two ssd drives:

  drive             volume                          mount
 sata III /dev/sda2         /
 nvme     /dev/nvme0n1p1    /home

 

sata III /  (530 Mb/s)


nvme /home  (2700 Mb/s)



galaxy season 2026

The beginning at least.
Went with the sv550 122mm f7. fl 854mm

Each around 36x4min with the atr 533c

m109 in ursa major

m101 in ursa major

m13 in hercules

m81 in ursa major


seti rethinks

 Just two rethinks from the 80mm set. Maybe a bit more faint stuff? Maybe a bit clearer? 

markarians chain coma berenices-virgo

 ngc3077 m81 m82 ursa major


primavera 2026



Heading north, the sun crosses the terrestrial equator at 15:46. Night and day are about the same duration.

8 mar 2026

axiomv2 starless

 Trial and -lots of- error.

Small bright galaxies. So that it doesn't identify m32, the innermost of the elliptical satellite galaxies as a star, IOW, to avoid this:

1. crop pedestal abe bg-neutral w-balance as normal. No sharpen.

2. cc AI4 denoise default

3. Sat-str 0.01


4. axiomv2 - NO temp stretch. 384 96


5. Stat-str 0.10

6. Mask and combine to taste



ROCm no go on iGPU SASpro

Despite a long wait trying ROCm 7.3, 7.1 and 7.0 wheels, gfx90c does not work:


torch CPU only: