Agreed! Cheers, Christine
On Oct 17, 2013, at 5:53 AM, Chris Mitchell <[email protected]> wrote: > Superb Darren. > Chris > > On 16 October 2013 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 >> >> -- >> 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. > > -- > 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.
