Astronomy Stacking application

To install you should first set up a virtual environment

$ virtualenv -p python3 env

Then activate the virtual environment

$ source env/bin/activate

Install required python packages with pip. You may need to first install numpy before running the requirements install if you don't have the numpy system package installed.

$ pip install numpy
$ pip install -r requirements.txt

You may need to install some additional system packages, ie: libcairo2-dev, pkg-config, python3-dev, libgirepository1.0-dev

You can run the application with

$ python AstraStack.py

In order to build the project for Linux, you will need to install pyinstaller using pip, and then run the build command

$ pip install pyinstaller
$ ./build.sh

The project can also be built in Windows using a mingw64 installation. You can install the python packages via the pacman package manager that it comes with, as well as with pip.

1. RegiStax - https://www.astronomie.be/registax/
2. PyStackReg - https://pypi.org/project/pystackreg/
3. TurboReg - http://bigwww.epfl.ch/thevenaz/turboreg/
4. StackReg - http://bigwww.epfl.ch/thevenaz/StackReg/
5. A Pyramid Approach to Subpixel Registration Based on Intensity - http://bigwww.epfl.ch/publications/thevenaz9801.html
6. Image Sharpening using Unsharp Masking and Wavelet Transform - http://ijarcsms.com/docs/paper/volume2/issue6/V2I6-0003.pdf