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

[Chris Peterson]

Yes, and an astronomical image processor probably wants all of these in his 
toolbox. Nevertheless, they aren't substitutes for Photoshop, which has the 
ability to maintain each frame on an individually editable layer. This is 
hugely useful for certain kinds of composition. For compositing video 
frames, where the data is only 8-bit, you can use GIMP, which is free. For 
16-bit and 32-bit data, Photoshop is the only program I know of that can 
work with layers.

No one program has everything. Most people working with astronomical imaging 
(especially if some of the data is in video form) have a suite of programs 
they utilize.

Chris

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


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Marco Langbroek" <marco.langbroek at wanadoo.nl>
To: "Global Meteor Observing Forum" <meteorobs at meteorobs.org>
Sent: Monday, September 01, 2008 10:45 AM
Subject: Re: (meteorobs) OT -Requested a specific meteor software 
program....


> 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