From: Mark Gaffney <markgaffney@me.com>

Date: September 2, 2009 8:54:47 PM MDT

To: astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: joining different image files...

Hi Milton,

I`ve just recieved some data about my camera-the Flea 2 colour (from someone very kind) & have input it to Sky Tools 3 Pro so I can open the exposure calculator. If I`m say imaging M 42 & take 5 exposures of 40 minutes to reach a Confident detection SNR of 10 (this is just for example) I assume these will be Quicktime movies with Astro IIDC. After stacking & aligning these movies, how do I go about joining the stacked images together. Does Astro IIDC provide any facility  that does this or must it be done in Photoshop or something else. I notice there`s a "Batch Process Image" option but this specifies (I think) that the images have the same name. If there were 3 different stacked files from 3 different movies can these be re-named at all?

Mark.