In that case, you'll want a program like RegiStax. It's designed for stacking and aligning star pictures when you don't have an equitorial mount for your astronomical shots.
http://www.astronomie.be/registax/ You might also want to take a look at the Cloudy Nights forums. They do astronomy exclusively and have how-tos for photography. On Tue, Oct 12, 2010 at 3:35 AM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Oct 11, 2010, at 4:02 PM, Matthew Hunt wrote: > >> On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 6:49 PM, Matthew Hunt <[email protected]> wrote: >>> On Mon, Oct 11, 2010 at 6:35 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>>> Alternatively, is there a good/easy/cheap way to stack a bunch of (for >>>> example >>>> 10 second) exposures to get a much longer exposure with less noise and >>>> short >>>> star trails? It would be preferable for me to do this in lightroom, but I >>>> also have >>>> photoshop. >> >> I took this question to still apply to film, but I realize now you >> were asking about digital. The recommendations for software like >> DeepSkyStacker are good. If your camera body enforces dark frame >> subtraction, you may have perceptible gaps in your star trails. > > I actually don't want star trails, I want stars. > >> >> -- >> PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> [email protected] >> http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > > -- > Larry Colen [email protected] sent from i4est > > > > > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. > -- David Parsons Photography http://www.davidparsonsphoto.com Aloha Photographer Photoblog http://alohaphotog.blogspot.com/ -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
