Yeah, and they're probably just as derogatory about us stuffing food into
our masticating slits.
Alan
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From: Bob W
Sent: Wednesday, October 16, 2013 8:52 AM
To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List
Subject: Re: PESO: My first DeepSkyStacker attempt
You know, somewhere out there in that cosmic vastness, back in the endless
aeons of space, beyond the furthest edges of time, there are probably many
hundreds of ancient civilisations where that beautiful scene of Frank's with
the loving father and his son on the bicycle is being played out in much the
same, gentle way.
Only out there they're green and scaly with slimy pustules on their skin, 13
slithery arms, and squid beaks instead of mouths. And the hotdogs - man,
don't even think about what goes into the hot-dogs.
B
On 16 Oct 2013, at 07:45, Bob W <[email protected]> wrote:
That's very impressive. I imagine you will get very good indeed at this,
and I look forward to watching it happen.
B
On 16 Oct 2013, at 00:00, 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
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