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

Marco Langbroek marco.langbroek at wanadoo.nl
Mon Sep 1 12:45:04 EDT 2008


Any stacking software as used by astrophotographers will be able to make a 
composite by stacking frames.

There are several free stacking programs, e.g. registax, DeepSky Stacker etc...

- Marco


Chris Peterson schreef:
> 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
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> 
> ----- 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.
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