(meteorobs) OT -Requested a specific meteor software program....

[Francisco Ocaña]

Hello list,

Interesting topic. Thank you for all the information.

I have another doubt. Does anyone look for meteors in still images? I 
have a digital camera taking 30sec exposures all the nigth. But looking 
for meteors is a quite time-consuming task ( ~1000 images/nigth). Does 
anyone know any software that compares images? Two consecutive images 
are almost identical except meteors, satellites, planes... It shouldn´t 
be difficult.

Thank you. Best,

Paco Ocaña

chiayk1 at singnet.com.sg escribió:
> Hi folks:
>   
>   A quick and dirty way of stacking fixed camera view from
> jpgs is  to use IRIS software there is a command called
> add_max2 which will automatically stack a numeric sequenced
> series of images and produce a final composite.  [ for frame
> having cloudy sky it will obscure the good frame]  
>
> e.g
> http://bp3.blogger.com/_-yIzpj2Hmwg/SCB05zRyIdI/AAAAAAAABt4/PzKNzgvN2jM/s1600-h/eta06may2008_25mmLens.jpg
>
>  IRIS >  http://www.astrosurf.com/buil/us/iris/iris.htm
>
> Cheers
>
> rgds
> ykchia
>
>
>   
>> I think my message was mis-understood.
>>
>> Making composites is easy. Handyavi, Astrosnap, Registax,
>> and many other  cheap or free programs do it.
>>
>> I am talking (specifically) about layering transparencies
>> of composites. A  program that automatically LAYERS &
>> MAKES TRANSPARENT .jpg composites so  that a meteor storm
>> can be seen as a single image.  -YCSentinel
>>