New Stacking Software

[Radar]

A new stacking program has been released called AVI Stack. I'm yet to use it but if anyone has any hints and tips please post them here.

The program is a freebee and can be downloaded from here.

http://www.avistack.de/index.html

Regards

Ray

[DarkSkyMan]

Thanks mate, will take a look.

Brett

[bradstyris]

Hey Radar.
Myself Bradstyris and I read your entire posting. Welcome to the forum Radar. The brief description about the topic I am posting here.

AviStack was primarily developed to process lunar images, but, it also works well with solar and planetary images. AviStack uses hundreds or even thousands of reference points to compensate for seeing-related distortions most effectively. This is decisive to detect even the smallest details in high resolution lunar images.

Despite the large number of reference points, AviStack is noticeably faster than Registax (when large numbers of reference points are used) and enables complete batch processing for all time consuming processing steps. Simply prepare within minutes all settings necessary to stack the film, save those settings and start the batch processing. That way you will later, e.g. on the next morning, find all the stacked final images on you computer.

You can already find in the Internet (and here under Bilder / Images) a number of examples where results obtained with AviStack are compared to those of Registax. A comment by Joe Zawodny: "I have not seen a case where RegiStax produced a better image, at best it was just as good, but often AVI Stack’s result was superior (especially when it came to the uniformity of quality)."

Anyways Thanks. Stay Connected.

[Radar]

Hi Brad, that is interesting stuff. I'll check that out, thanks

Ray