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Old 17-01-2008, 02:10 PM
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How to stack images of a moving comet using "sum"?

G'day all,

Anyone able to suggest a program to use for stacking a series of .FIT files (containing a comet) where the comet is moving through the FOV?

I have tried this with RegiStax and while its easily locks on to the comet and stacks the imagaes, it's doing so using an "average" algorithm, I can't find out how to get it to use an "add".

Trying with CCDSoft or RegiStar (and presumably Deep Sky Stacker, but haven't tried) the images are aligned and stacked according to the star field, so hence the comet is trailed.

Could anyone suggest the best way to do this?

An option is manually in photoshop, but I have a lot of frames

Thanks,
Roger.
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