Cropping files to follow the moon

Last month I took a series of photos of the lunar eclipse. I didn’t have a tracker so I just took photos of the moon moving across the frame until it moved out of frame

I have about 300 photos of the moon as the eclipse was happening and the moon starts from the bottom left corner moving towards the upper right corner

How can I crop each and every photo so that the moon is always centered in the frame? Is there a way I can automate it

The software I currently use is Darktable for windows but I have also used Rawtherapee in the past

Thank you

Export all of them uncropped (or 10 of them at first, as a test), then align them using Hugin, and in the “Stitcher” tab in Hugin export the remapped images.

Assuming you’re trying to make a video of this? You can use any video editor that supports track motion, like Kdenlive for instance. Import your 300 frames as an image sequence into a cropped 16:9 timeline and use Track Motion to center first and last frames as key-frames. The s/w should automate all in between frames. Now export your video.

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Yes, I should have stated why I needed the cropped photos, to create a time lapse video

Let me look for the software and see if it will work for me

Thank you for the quick response, appreciate it

Planetary Image Preprocessor was made just for cases like this. Crop the images to thereabouts and then fine align them in PIPP.