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Starting off in Astrophotography...

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    #272
    mickmackey1
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    Stunning!


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    #273
    allinthehead
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    Beautiful. I love the dark dust clouds you captured, loads of detail.

    ☀️



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    #274
    rolion
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    Have I catched Planet X !?

    399685.jpg



    399686.jpg


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    #275
    mickmackey1
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    Lens flare I'm afraid.


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    #276
    ZeRoY
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    Optical artefact yes but stunning pic!


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    #277
    Jan_de_Bakker
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    Quick question lads, what do you use for image stacking for night sky shots ?


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    #278
    murphyme2010
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    I use deep sky stacker. it's free and easy to use.


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    #279
    ZeRoY
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    Jan_de_Bakker wrote: »
    Quick question lads, what do you use for image stacking for night sky shots ?

    Same here DSS for starfields else Autostakkert / Registax / Fitsworks for Moon or planet shots


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    #280
    Jan_de_Bakker
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,403 ✭✭✭Jan_de_Bakker


    From the DSS page
    Dark Frames and Dark Flat Frames
    The Dark Frames are used to remove the dark signal from the light frames (or the flat frames for the Dark Flat frames).
    With DSLRs and CCD Camera, the CMOS or CCD is generating a dark signal depending of the exposure time, temperature and ISO speed (DSLR only).
    To remove the dark signal from the light frames you use a dark frame that contains only the dark signal.

    The best way to create the dark frames is to shoot pictures in the dark (hence the name) by covering the lens.
    The dark frames must be created with the exposure time, temperature and ISO speed of the light frames (resp. flat frames).
    Since the temperature is important try to shoot dark frames at the end or during your imaging session.

    Take a few of them (between 10 and 20 is usually enough). DeepSkyStacker will combine them automatically to create and use a clean master dark or master dark flat.


    :confused:

    Really ? need to take pics with lens cap on ?
    I don't get the logic .. is it just to remove noise from the real black parts of the night sky in the final image ?


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    #281
    ZeRoY
    Registered Users Posts: 959 ✭✭✭ZeRoY


    Jan_de_Bakker wrote: »
    From the DSS page

    :confused:

    Really ? need to take pics with lens cap on ?
    I don't get the logic .. is it just to remove noise from the real black parts of the night sky in the final image ?

    The idea is to remove the noise present in your camera light train, for darks anyway. Flats is the same expect its to remove the vignetting from your light train


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