Asiair Video feature should provide stacking option

Foobaria

ASIAIR Video feature should provide an option to stack the frames in the video just captured on the device and save that resulting stacked image to the mobile device. This is similar to the Live Stacking feature but for Videos.

This can also be implemented with a new "Video Live Stacking" feature (this feature is for stacking a video (mp4 or avi) into one single image), to go alongside the existing functionality of "Live Stacking" (this one is for individual exposures stacked into one picture).

Tech@ZWO

Foobaria Thanks for your suggestion, i forwarded to our team.

Corsair

Tech@ZWO please see my post above for an alternative way to implement this that would also work at least as an initial option.

johnpd

There already is a stacking option for Video mode. It is done on the video after it is saved, but not live. It allows sharpening of the stacked image as well. Live stacking of a planet, for instance, could be problematic as you would be stacking bad frames as well as good ones.

JohnD

Corsair

johnpd while that does exist it doesn't help those who do EAA who don't do any post processing.

As detailed in this post on Cloudy Nights: https://www.cloudynights.com/topic/876906-planetary-viewing-with-c8-sct-asiair-plus-asi294mc-pro/#entry12749518

even though in Video mode in the ASIAIR it does the video capture and the stacking within the same software, because of the two separate processes involved (recording video, then stacking video) it isn't considered to be EAA. However, if it did record then immediately stack on its own without user intervention, then that would be EAA.

So for EAA/Live Stacking when it comes to Planetary viewing it would be good if there was at least an option in Video mode to automatically create the stacked image from the video.

johnpd

The option would have to include a process to only stack sharper frames or possibly allow entry of a percent of frames to stack. You don't want to stack garbage.
A long time ago I used a SBIG STV camera. It had a fantastic option where it would capture an image, get another image, and then display the sharpest one. It would continue to do that process with each new captured image, displaying only the sharpest one of all the images taken. This was great for viewing planets for public outreach. Maybe that would be a good option for EAA as it would be doing this as a continuing process.

JohnD

Foobaria

Yes if there was a continual live stacking where the image would get better and better as you watch it, this would be great option.

tbhausen

I second this suggestion.

Tech@ZWO

I forwarded to our ASIAIR team, It's a challenge for ASIAIR's hardware and computing power,