Advanced Eclipse Aligner

AEA, v1.6.1 *** ***     2025/07/03


© 2025, Sylvain Weiller
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NEVERMORE PARTIAL SOLAR ECLIPSES ALIGNEMENT JUNK LIKE THIS !!

Demonstrations of right behaviour with some nice but still shaky solar eclipse videos found on the Internet!
I had to remove, sorry for this, the original logos because no registration could be successful with them present in the images...

Credit:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4y5SA72maWg&t=58s

Credit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKf47RFG57k

Looking at the canvas of the video below (this is not an artifact created by AEA), it is obvious that already a lot of work was done in order to align all the original frames... but small problems did remain in the posted result.

No installation required!
Simply place the files in a dedicated non-system directory (e.g., `Users\AdvancedEclipseAligner\...` or `Appexe\AdvancedEclipseAligner\`).

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**Introduction**

I really did not know if I would succeed doing this software, it was completely on new grounds...
I had so many eclipse images in the last 30 years I had so much difficulty to align properly, often resigning to spend hours do it manually!

Forever now it will be easy and precise, all the alignement being done automatically by mathematical computations in a couple of minutes.

- Accepts BMPs directly, and also JPGs, PNGs after internal conversion to a new folder of BMPs,
- ideally likes simple names for source images, something like SEcl001, SEcl002, etc.
- accepts different canvas sizes (as it is often the case after the registration of AVI or SER files),
- outputs aligned BMPs,
- from just created BMPs outputs a registered GIF file with parameters (delay in between frames in ms, scale from 1:1 to 1:10),
- also when coming back another time, can still do it if a folder with the BMPs is still present.

This open the path to:
/ in any folder containing BMPs, make them same size for further classical registration process,
/ in any folder containing JPGs or PNGs, make them same size and converting them to a folder of BMPs,

In present version 1.6.1 the program ...
A lot of work to have a better, nicely colored, User Interface and Software logo.
A complete GIF output package,
and the best of all is having cropped aligned Sun images and GIF animations with user defined borders,
in all software compatible, mod(4) pixel sides!
Also corrects a little (V 1.6) difficulty in Gif size reducer entry.

... Interface of 'Advanced Eclipse Aligner V 1.6' at Calibration step [GIF Scale <> in V1.6.1]:

Advanced Eclipse Aligner in action (accelerated, click for full size)!
Note: the complete processing in realtime, full size, is posted in this 5 min YouTube video https://youtu.be/c7PDzk3nnWw