Hey All!
I typically use Sirilic to stack my images. It’s always worked for me and never bothered to try WBPP. I recently gathered nearly 27 hours on M81 and M82 and when stacking in Sirilic I wasn’t happy with the results, so figured what the heck I’ll try learning to use WBPP.
Holy smokes, it took nearly 12 hours to complete! Granted it was 536 images from an ASI2600MC on an i5 laptop from 2018, but everything is stored on a M.2 drive. I did disable fast integration and ran WBPP with standard settings.
Sirilic did the same task in roughly 30 minutes under the same conditions.
WBPP did a noticeably better job stacking the images and I’m so far happy with it (haven’t processed it yet but just the raw stack has more detail)
Looking online, these long processing times are not out of the ordinary.
My question is, can anyone that’s familiar with both programs answer why the 24x processing time?