(meteorobs) What Software

[Chris Peterson]

I understand what stacking is. But it has no utility for meteor work, 
except for generating background star fields for astrometric calibration.

For meteor work, you want to avoid cameras that use any sort of internal 
stacking or signal processing.

Sensor technology isn't improving all that fast. Good sensors already 
have very high QE, and many cameras have very good noise 
characteristics. In general, you will get the best results with cameras 
using Sony HAD sensors. Cameras with digital interfaces will give better 
results than analog cameras used with frame grabbers.

Chris

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

On 12/21/2013 8:35 AM, Jay Salsburg wrote:
> http://www.astronomie.be/registax/
>   Video Stacking is a technique for processing Video or sequential images to
> enhance and improve the image. REGISTAX does this but is for post processing
> and Astronomy not Meteor Capture.
>
> My current Camera uses a Sony Sensor which Stacks the Video internally with
> its own hardware processor. While this is a great enhancement of the video
> in real time, it is not conducive to real time processing.
>
> I want to use one of the new Web Cams that appear to have excellent sensor
> technology.
>
> It also appears that Cell Phones (Smart Phones) are improving their Video
> Sensors, (Cameras). It is just a matter of time before someone makes a Smart
> Phone "App" that captures Meteors then posts the processed Video to a server
> in real time, from unattended remote locations.
>