Develop a simple program to allow users to take several photographs taken of the night sky using a stationary camera and "stack" those photos into a single image, emulating a much longer exposure, in order to make the stars more visible without producing star trails (stars should appear as points in the final stacked image)
- Need some way to load RAW (and probably FITS, TIFF) image files
- Decided to support BMP and/or TIFF images, since the super popular
imagecrate implements BMP
- Decided to support BMP and/or TIFF images, since the super popular
- Need some way to locate stars
- Need some way to track stars across multiple images
- Need way to intelligently crop the edges
- Need way to either ignore landscape or allow user to tell program what part of a photo is landscape (and should thus be ignored)
- Do we want to perform any sort of noise correction/removal or any other processing?