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

[stange]

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

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Peterson" <clp at alumni.caltech.edu>
To: "Global Meteor Observing Forum" <meteorobs at meteorobs.org>
Sent: 2008/09/01 10:16
Subject: Re: (meteorobs) OT -Requested a specific meteor software 
program....


> 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
>
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