Image stacking.....

[Phil-D]

The other night I took 7, 15 seconds images of the ISS passing over but I have know idea how to to stack them

I've had a quick Google and tried to download Startrax without any successes :banghead: when I try to open after the download finished it says it can't open

I have E11 but youtube just confused mi

Also there's a little bit of light cloud movement that I don't want in a cpl of the photos, is it possible to leave bits out of certain images when stacking or will it need cloning out first?

Any help/advice needs to be in 'a guide for dummies' style please , thanks

 

[Pookeyhead]

Tries Registax?

Also Deep Sky Stacker.


Both free.

edit anything you don't want in prior to stacking.

 

[Phil-D]

Cheers David, I'm not very computer literate but can normally bumble my way through owt....but this has me baffled :banghead:

I've downloaded a couple of programs but can't get them to work ........Startrails.exe version 2.6 being one, seemed simple but obviously not simple enough

I'll have a look at the two above later

 

[Jannyfox]

I tried Registax once and couldn't get any sense out of it, but Deep Sky Stacker is fairly intuitive to use. A few clicks and it's done. As David said, do any editing first. You can't do it during or after the stacking process. There's also the option to tweek the colour channels, saturation etc which is sometimes best done before you export to your usual PP software.

 

[Phil-D]

I tried Registax once and couldn't get any sense out of it, but Deep Sky Stacker is fairly intuitive to use. A few clicks and it's done. As David said, do any editing first. You can't do it during or after the stacking process. There's also the option to tweek the colour channels, saturation etc which is sometimes best done before you export to your usual PP software.

Thanks Jan, I did eventually get the Startrails program to work, its very simple to use, I was just missing the obvious

 

[Jannyfox]

Most of us have been there....................!