Sunday, March 16, 2025

Processing snippet: Complete processing of RAW videos in ASIVideoStack

For experiment, lunar and solar Seestar S50 data were stacked and completely processed in ASIVideoStack. The lunar data are 75% of frames in a 3 minute RAW AVI and the solar data are 100% of the frames in a 37s RAW AVI captured in a rare gap in the clouds. The data are uncompressed right up until the moment that the processed JPG is saved. It should be noted that a 100% quality JPG is indistinguishable from an uncompressed image to an observer. However, JPGs are not suitable for much further processing as quality will be lost with each saving. However, if a 100% quality JPG is immediately converted to an uncompressed TIFF or PNG then limited further processing is possible. No further processing has been done here. 

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Lunar data  stacking and processing in ASIVideoStack


Lunar image with no further processing


Solar data stacking and processing in ASIVideoStack

Solar image with no further processing other than desaturation (which cannot be done in ASIVideoStack)


Steve Wainwright

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