(meteorobs) Meteor software program needed?
stange34 at sbcglobal.net
stange34 at sbcglobal.net
Thu Sep 13 23:54:52 EDT 2007
Noted Chris.
I am just being exceedingly lazy about it....
Looking now at an older program I have called "Astrosnap Pro" to do it for
me. That program has a lot of selectable scripts built in. It is all a
computer learning experience for me but the objective is to reduce the local
labor here........ whatever that means. <g>
YCSentinel
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Peterson" <clp at alumni.caltech.edu>
To: "Global Meteor Observing Forum" <meteorobs at meteorobs.org>
Sent: 2007/09/13 08:58
Subject: Re: (meteorobs) Meteor software program needed?
> Larry-
>
> It seems to me that your grouping approach makes the process more
> complicated, not less. I don't see the need for either grouping or
> automatic generation of composites. Here's my workflow:
>
> 1. Data is collected with Metrec. This works well to detect meteors (and
> airplanes, lightning, bugs... it's not very discriminating). Each event is
> logged, a composite image is saved, and a non-standard image sequence is
> saved. The camera starts automatically at the end of civil twilight, and
> ends at the start of civil twilight. Metrec has some nice calibration
> options, but I've not been able to make them work with an allsky camera,
> so I don't let it create an advanced log.
>
> 2. Data is post processed each morning. Metrec provides a tool for this,
> but I don't use it since working in DOS is simply too painful. I have my
> own post processing tool that collects the Metrec data from over a
> network, applies camera calibration data, and builds a new log file, a
> different format image file, and uploads the logs and composite images to
> a database at http://meteor.cloudbait.com.
>
> 3. From the central database, I can recover measurements from multiple
> stations, and apply this to my own tools for orbit analysis or radiant
> analysis. Multiple event composites are trivially produced in Photoshop.
>
> Chris
>
> *****************************************
> Chris L Peterson
> Cloudbait Observatory
> http://www.cloudbait.com
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <stange34 at sbcglobal.net>
> To: "Global Meteor Observing Forum" <meteorobs at meteorobs.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 11:24 PM
> Subject: Re: (meteorobs) Meteor software program needed?
>
>
>>I do not believe that would work Andrew.
>>
>> Using Chris's unique stream work as an example..... I would want a meteor
>> summed photo for each of 12 groups. Each group represent 5 minutes of
>> capture time.. That is 12 photo's per hour to glance at for counting etc.
>> without playing back the full hour of filming or captures.
>>
>> YCSentinel
>
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