Very cool! On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 06:00:44PM -0500, Darren Addy wrote: > Y'all may recall > (hey, that rhymes!) > the m31 (Andromeda galaxy) image I shared a few days ago. It was a > single 45 second exposure and made from a single in-camera JPEG (not > even the RAW file). > Refresher link: http://www.flickr.com/photos/pixelsmithy/10181475554/ > > Well, I finally got to attempt my first use of the freeware > DeepSkyStacker (version 3.3.3 beta 51) and with it I stacked the 11 > "good" RAW images that I had taken that evening. Added together, they > represent a 6 minute "integrated" exposure time. > > The latest versions of DSS also let you work with the histogram (in R, > G, & B), luminance, and saturation, along with the curves. I then > applied a few Photoshop astrophotography-related actions and adjusted > the color-balance, which seemed a bit green to my eye. Here is the > result: > > http://www.flickr.com/photos/pixelsmithy/10299785464/
I'm impressed! Very impressed. It seems I need to find some clear skys and play with my OGPS-1. Or at least try to stack some of my images. This is it? http://deepskystacker.free.fr/english/index.html It only works on Windows? Any recommendation for a Linux or Mac version? > > This is still not even doing everything "right" because I was working > with no "dark frames", "bias frames", or "flats" which would make for > an even better stacked image (especially where noise is concerned). > Still I'm pretty pleased with the result, for my "maiden DSS voyage". > > K-5ii, O-GPS1, ISO 800 K135mm f2.5 @ f4 When do you do it right, aimed at ISON? > > -- > Nothing is sure but death and Pentaxes. > > -- > 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] http://red4est.com/lrc -- 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.
