I am going to be imaging in 8-14um IR, yes, I am aware of how impractical that is, no, you cant stop me. Obviously, since I cant afford a proper camera for this, ill be using, bottom of the barrel microbolometer gear, meaning I will get basically no signal, nothing to align.
But, I can guide, so problem solved I just keep the image pointed straight ahead for several nights to get something to show up right?
Nope, I will have to dither especially so because these cheap things also have horrible non uniformities in the sensor.
The solution is that I need some way to convert guiding data into image alignment data so I can actually stack this stuff. I have no idea how to do that. Send help.