with AstroVideo from COAA

What is Drift Integration ?

Imagine mounting a video camera on a static tripod, pointing it at the sky and synthesising a long exposure by Video Integration.

You would expect the result to be an image of star-trails.

With Drift Integration, the integrating software compensates for the image drift and combines the video frames so that the stars do not trail.

Results

Sum of 2000 video frames with Drift Integration disabled

Coma Berenices star-trails

Watec WAT-902HS 0.00015 lux video camera with a 30 mm zoom Television Lens (55mm diameter objective) on a static tripod


 

Sum of 2000 video frames with Drift Integration enabled

Coma Berenices

Total time required to capture and integrate the 2000 frames was 4min 45seconds

by S.J. Wainwright

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