[Astroman (Andrew Wall)]

Hello,

First thing you want to do is Register and Calibrate all your frames in DSS. This way all your images have been calibrated with Darks, Flats, etc... This should remove any unwanted noise, hot and cold pixels from the images and leave you with whats important.

SO with Lights, Darks, Flats etc... checked you are ready to register them, click on Register Checked Pictures... Once you have the screen pop up. Click on Stacking Parameters. Another window will pop up... Click on Intermediate files tab and select Create a Registered/Calibrated file for each light frame. Make sure you have TIF selected. This should save the Calibrated individual images that are fully registered.

Once you have done that and DSS has done it's business you can go into a graphics package and edit the frames as you with, but do this in a batch so all images get exactly the same treatment. Enhancing the object to make it more visible. Then once you are happy with that you can put the frames in order into a video editing package and make your movie as you seem fit.

VirtualDub does a good job at making an animation AVI out of individual frames.

If you get stuck let me know and I will try and help you out.