From: Milton Aupperle <milton@outcastsoft.com>

Date: September 2, 2009 9:19:36 PM MDT

To: Astro_IIDC@yahoogroups.com

Subject: Re: [Astro_IIDC] joining different image files...

Hi Mark;

On 2-Sep-09, at 8:54 PM, Mark Gaffney wrote:

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.  

Usually movies, unless you grab individual frames.

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.

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?

From the Astro IIDC Manual on page 50:

Quote:

 "Batch Process Image.." will import and process up to 1000 image files using the currently 

set image processing preferences in one batch operation and save the resulting files with the 

same names into a user designated folder. 

So it applies the current image processing settings (i.e. sharpness, color adjustment, stretching etc.) to all the files that you selected. Very useful if your Processing a series of images and want the same settings used in each case. Also much faster than opening each image individually with "Process Image.." as the GUI stuff doesn't get in the way.

HTH..

Milton Aupperle