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

[Chris Peterson]

While Photoshop isn't a cheap program, it is so incredibly useful that 
anybody preparing graphics should seriously consider getting it. The process 
involved in stacking images in order to construct a composite is quite 
simple, and has the advantage that individual frames can be enabled or 
disabled, as well at making it possible to easily remove interference like 
the Moon.

Having your acquisition program generate composites is certainly useful 
(Metrec does this, for instance), but it isn't a complete substitute for 
more comprehensive compositing tools.

Chris

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Chris L Peterson
Cloudbait Observatory
http://www.cloudbait.com


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "stange" <stange34 at sbcglobal.net>
To: <meteorobs at meteorobs.org>
Sent: Monday, September 01, 2008 9:50 AM
Subject: (meteorobs) OT -Requested a specific meteor software program....


> To All:
>
> I have asked the designer of Handyavi to consider designing a simple 
> program
> which would allow many composite .jpg images of meteor streaks to be user
> selected for layering together.
>
> This would give us the ability to have a single summed image of all our
> meteors taken in one night for example, and would be similar to what Chris
> of Cloudbait does with his Metrec & MaximDL programs without the necessity
> of learning layering & transparancy techniques or spending inordinate 
> monies
> for those programs to achieve that.
>
> If a response to the request is favourable, I will place it as a thread on
> this topic. I have no idea of how many meteorobs persons would be 
> interested
> in a program like this for their all-sky cameras, and for those taking 
> time
> delay photographs to capture multiple meteors.