Stackistry version 0.2.0

[GreatAttractor]

New version 0.2.0 can be downloaded from https://github.com/GreatAttractor/stackistry/releases

New features:

• Image alignment using the intensity centroid (useful for planets)
• Structure detection for better automatic placement of reference points
• Zoom function in image view widgets
• More controls for automatic reference point placement
• Displaying and exporting of frame quality data
• Generating the composite of best fragments of all frames
   

Bug fixes:

• Fixed opening AVI files produced by FFMPEG

 

Necessity is the mother of invention — the enhanced ref. point placement was needed for automatic stacking of lunar videos out of my new ATM Newt, without adding tens of points manually.

The need for quality data frame export feature was pointed out by Joachim (RTJoe) from Solarchat, can be useful e.g. for comparing with an SSM (Solar Scintillation Monitor) output from a session.

Finally, it is quite interesting to view the composite of best frame fragments. You can see some of this in the video tutorials I finally got around to making:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_68kEYBXkLw&list=PLCKkDZ7up_-VRMzGQ0bmmiXL39z78zwdE&index=1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEPmircIbuc&list=PLCKkDZ7up_-VRMzGQ0bmmiXL39z78zwdE&index=2

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[Tim]

Looks interesting, just about to try it for the first time, thanks for the link

[Tim]

Just out of interest, would it be any use in stacking videos of the ISS?

Like this one;

 

[GreatAttractor]

Sure! All-automatic processing should work for a video like this; otherwise, you may have to select manual placement of reference points.

[Tim]

Hmm, looks like manual it is