u/NomadJago

I have FITS data from a remote robotic telescope to download for a few objects. I have no idea which type of FITS data I should download, help/advice very much needed.

I have a choice to "Apply Flat Field 34 to download of the data?" y/n

I have to choose to download the data as: 3D Fits / 3x 2D Fits / Flat Field 34 (which of the 3 do i choose?)

I am new at this, I just want to process the data to create some sort of colorized image of a nebula NGC6992 , the Andromeda galaxy, and part of the Eagle nebula.

I just did a couple of chats with Support from the Spitfire Audio site. I was expecting lousy chat, but I was surprised how smart the AI was. It reminds of chat GPT I which use frequently and which is impressive.

EDIT: I have decided not to use an internal sata spin drive for backups (I was going to get a 20TB internal drive) due to noise and risk of malware infection and damage. Instead I am going to use a half dozen external usb3 4-6 TB drives for which I already own five, will buy a couple more. I am storing the external drives in foam protective hard cases, will treat them gently, and work at making a second case with redundant backup usb drives to keep out of the house in the event of a house fire. The drives will be safe from rootkits and malware. I will make imaged backups of my C: drive with Windows and imaged backups of Linux, and for my data drive and my two drives with vst instrument libraries I will do folder/file copies to the external usb drives. I think this will suffice; if not please let me know how to improve this strategy.

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How many TB and #drives do you have all your composing libs (VSTs) on, types of drives (SSD, spin drive, internal vs external), and what is your strategy for backing up your drives of your libs?

I just had a 4TB internal SSD fail and it had all (2.5TB) of my Spitfire Audio libs on it and then some, frustrating as such drives are not cheap these days. I did not have it backed up due to its size and because it is not the operating system drive (C:/Windows), and because I figured well I can just reinstall the libs if the drive fails. The drive failed, and now I so wish I had done an imaged backup of the drive-- but that takes a lot of storage. I also have a 2TB internal SSD with a lot of non-spitfire libs (from Native Instruments and others). I am thinking I spend $600 on a 20GB internal spin drive (I know, noisy) for holding imaged backups of all my drives; I only attach the cables to the noisy spin drive when needed for backups or restores, thus avoiding the noise that interferes with composing. I have enough external usb drives to get it done, but I have learned that the most reliable drives for backups are internal SSD, then internal spin hard drives, then external because external relies on USB and that creates more possible routes of failure compared to internal sata drives.

I have maybe 40 Spitfire products (2 TB of libs) and the 4TB ssd drive they were on failed, toast. So I need to reinstall all my libs (Hanz Zimmer Strings, Albions, SSO, etc) to a newly formatted 4TB drive. Yeah, it will take a lot of time, What is the best way to do this so the registration/verification and all goes good, using the Spitfire App?

I have a video clip that I then added some markers to. I trimmed the start of the video clip. But if I move the clip the markers do not move with the video clip, which is a problem. Is there a way to have moving the video clip on the timeline also move the markers so the markers remain relevant?

Reaper 7.78/win64 rev 608e49 July 18 2026

Windows 11 x64

Just thought I would mention that 12 years ago I sold my house and went gypsy with a friend and we sought a better life in a different part of the USA (fwiw, after several years we came full circle and returned to where we had lived, where friends were etc. But to prepare for that, I literally got rid of at least 90% of my stuff. My entire basement was filled with bins of stuff. I owned a two story duplex, no renters. My entire upstairs was knee deep in stuff. Used a $10 electronic time to spend 15 min a day getting rid of it all. Mind blowing all the stuff I had. Years later, and today, I do not even remember much of what stuff I had. Crazy. I keep trying to get rid of more but it is difficult when one has multiple hobbies/interests--- easel and canvases for abstract painting, composing on the computer, learning piano; but I obviously got rid of what did not really matter to me and that is the most important thing. I have a -30F sleeping bag (brutal winters) and several large bins filled with food and such should a zombie apocalypse happen-- I wish I did not need that but it is prudent-- cyberterrorists recently attacked 30 water plants in the state I live in, showing one needs to prepare. Oh well, just sharing.

I notice now that my LABS collection of free instruments can go offline for 30 days but then needs to be online to "verify my subscriptions". I do not have any subscriptions nor will I. I paid for many Spitfire paid libraries. I should not have to be online for composing. More enshitification from Spitfire. I was going to buy a few libraries today from Spitfire but not when I read that they would require creating an account with Splice, and I suspect require being online when using such libraries.

I can't seem to download Eric Whitacre library, a few Mbps or zero Mbps. Part of a library failed to download and link said to check the log but the link does not even work.

EDIT: Solved. Okay I am still waking up this morning--- I realized I already own a library for what I need-- Symphonic Destruction; has lots of horror soundscapes for low rumbling horror. Still, I am curious what others here use for horror soundscapes.
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What is your go-to library for the types of rumbling and eerie sounds often heard in horror films? I watched "The Nun" (part of The Conjuring universe) last night and there was actually not a lot of music, but there was a lot of was low frequency rumbling (not infrasound).

What is your method of creating that sound?

A new subreddit for filmmaking in the Duluth area

https://www.reddit.com/r/Filmmaking_Duluth/

I have a Linux Mint 23 guest on a Windows 11 host. For some odd reason, youtube videos in the guest playback at a faster than normal rate (Brave browser) even though the playback speed for the videos is at 1.0. What virtualbox setting would be causing this? How can I fix this? Youtube videos were stuttering then I disabled Windows 11 Hyper-V, rebooted, and now the Youtube videos playback too fast and it also causes voices of people in the video to be higher pitched as well as talking faster. This is weird. Related, maybe, playing non-youtube videos in the guest results in some stuttering during playback.

Version 7.2.14 r174565 (Qt6.8.0 on windows)
Hyper-V is disabled on Windows 11
I have enabled VT-x/AMD-V 
Guest Additions has been installed, system rebooted

I keep wanting to use Linux rather than Windows, for privacy, but how much extra privacy do we get using Linux compared to a battened down privacy-oriented Windows?

I compose music, and that is the main reason I absolutely need to use Windows.

My question is-- can Windows suffice for privacy, by taking the extra steps, to make it good enough, compared to Linux?

I installed the Orchestral Tools SINE Player to Linux Mint 23 using wine 11, then obtained the free orchestra for SINE. Works great standalone. Today I installed and configured yabridge, told yabridge where to find my VST2 and VST3 plugins, synced it all, and the VSTs show up including SINE Player. I am using native Linux Reaper for the DAW.

But when I try to load SINE as a track fx (similar to loading Kontakt, etc) I get the error shown below. Anything I am doing wrong? right? solution/fix? So frustrating, I thought I had such a good thing going with the high quality free orchestra and SINE, but it is all useless if I can not import the SINE Player to a Reaper track.

https://preview.redd.it/7ma4emcjktgh1.png?width=1920&format=png&auto=webp&s=e87598618435f37d105c704b5dca4a4d58e69fea

Carla or Yabridge -- which is easiest to bridge a wine VST to native Linux Reaper DAW?

I installed the SINE player of Orchestral Tools, and its Berlin Free Orchestral Library; all done in wine. I have Reaper for Linux installed as my DAW. All on Linux Mint 23. I need to bridge the two so that Reaper can scan, see, and utilize the Sine player that is in wine. What is the best/easiest tool to do this-- Carla? Yabridge? Other? I also want the lowest latency of course, so is one better than the other as far as latency?

What genus and species do Christians believe Adam belonged to-- Homo habilis? Homo erectus? Homo sapiens? Other? or do Christians believe that Adam was an actual first ever human who was created from dirt? or do Christians take the story to be allegorical and not real?

How do I prevent my current wine (ver 11.0) from updating to another version? I have an installation of a Windows program working on my Linux Mint 23 system and I do not want wine updating itself which could break the functionality of the Windows software I have working. The software is the SINE Player (ver 1.4.1) from Orchestral Tools, and I have it working with their free orchestra instruments.

https://www.wdio.com/top-stories/lnpk-grocery-in-duluth-opening-soon-with-fresh-produce-stocked/

What specific equipment should I consider buying to do mirrorless full frame DSLR astrophotography? I have the camera (Canon R6 ii). I have a very sturdy fluid-head video tripod as well as a regular photography tripod. I don't know a lot about astronomy but I am learning. I want to be able to use my camera (as the 'telescope'), and whatever is needed for long exposures and very importantly a setup that makes it as easy as possible to align the camera/mount for long exposure equatorial (RA, Dec) photography. The less alignment with the north star I have to do manually the better. What equipment do I need to achieve this? Any specific names/models of said equipment would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.