If you don't want star trails, this software will align many frames and give you points instead: http://www.astronomie.be/registax/
On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 11:59 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Oct 9, 2011, at 8:16 PM, David Savage wrote: > >> <http://www.markus-enzweiler.de/StarStaX/StarStaX.html> > > Thanks. that's almost the opposite of what I'm trying to do though, I want > to freeze the stars. > > I suspect that what I'm going to end up needing to do is some fancy work in > photoshop where I need to stack the sky and the ground separately, then > combine them somehow. > >> >> DS >> >> On 10/10/2011, David Parsons <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Check out the forums at Cloudy Nights. >>> http://www.cloudynights.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php?Cat= >>> >>> More information than you probably want, but these people are real >>> astro-geeks. >>> >>> On Sun, Oct 9, 2011 at 9:23 PM, Larry Colen <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> Has anyone played around with the combination enough to get a good >>>> starting point for settings to use? >>>> >>>> Also, I've never done any image stacking, any suggestions on good places >>>> to go to learn how to do it? What to use? >>>> >>>> I do have photoshop CS5 on my Mac. A friend pointed me to deep sky >>>> stacker: >>>> http://deepskystacker.free.fr/english/index.html >>>> >>>> Which runs on XP. I could do the stacking on the PC if need be, though it >>>> would be simpler if I could keep everything on one computer. >>>> >>>> -- >>>> 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. >>> >> >> -- >> 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.

