Wow! Cheers, frank
Darren Addy <[email protected]> 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/ > >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 “Analysis kills spontaneity.” -- Henri-Frederic Amiel -- 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.
