I struggled with aligning both, solar and lunar eclipse images with available SW like Autostakkert or PIPP and ended up writing a very simple tool to allow aligning images semi-automatically. The tool allows to
Known issues:
- all images in the selected folder are loaded into memory, if you have a lot of images, have a lot of memory
- i need to move processing into QThreads, so right now you cannot cancel anything
There is lots of better software out there, but a fun activity to use Gemini to write this code and maybe someone finds this useful as well
https://github.com/stone17/astro_aligner#
Example output: https://app.astrobin.com/u/mxpwr?i=stll8v#gallery
- register using FFT and SSD
- selecting a specific anchor area of the image to register against
- manually shifting/rotating images
- display absolute difference for fine alignment
- linear morphing between images, to create a smoother animation
Known issues:
- all images in the selected folder are loaded into memory, if you have a lot of images, have a lot of memory
- i need to move processing into QThreads, so right now you cannot cancel anything
There is lots of better software out there, but a fun activity to use Gemini to write this code and maybe someone finds this useful as well
https://github.com/stone17/astro_aligner#
Example output: https://app.astrobin.com/u/mxpwr?i=stll8v#gallery
