The Andromeda photo I took in July finally clicked after I read a forum post about stacking

I was out near Flagstaff with my old DSLR and a 200mm lens, just messing around. The raw shots looked like noise with a faint smudge, but someone on here explained how to use DeepSkyStacker with 30 light frames. I tried it with 40 frames from that trip and the detail that popped out was insane. Has anyone else had a single forum tip completely change their editing game?

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fiona_nelson511d ago

oh man, stacking is a total game changer but i actually found the opposite tip more helpful - someone showed me how to take fewer but better frames instead of just piling on hundreds. like focusing on exposure time and dark frames made my milky way shots way cleaner than just stacking a ton of noisy ones lol

elliot_harris251d ago

i hear you but i kinda think stacking still wins for me. those darker frames and longer exposures only get you so far if you don't have enough data to clean up the noise in the first place.