Tag Archives: DeepSkyStacker

Temporary halt on Deep Sky Stacker port to Linux

Posted on February 21, 2024 by james

I think I’ve reached the point where I can’t do much more with this for the moment, unfortunately. Unless I fancy creating a BITMAP-type library for Linux so I don’t have to port all of the code that uses Windows … Continue reading →

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Next piece of Linux DSS done…

Posted on February 16, 2024 by james

I’d pretty much gone as far as I thought I could with my Linux Deep Sky Stacker port for the moment, but then realised that some bits that still didn’t compile were actually simper to fix than I thought, and … Continue reading →

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Fun with Qt Help and CMake

Posted on February 14, 2024 by james

As a Windows application, Deep Sky Stacker stores all its help text in .chm files, but I need to get rid of the Windows dependencies. Fortunately I have the HTML and images that make up those files, and there’s the … Continue reading →

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Stacking on Linux, deeply

Posted on February 10, 2024 by james

Pretty much anyone who is into amateur astrophotography will be familiar with Deep Sky Stacker (aka DSS). It’s a great application that takes combinations of light and dark frames (amongst others) and merges them to produce a single stacked output … Continue reading →

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