{"id":1931,"date":"2022-07-10T13:54:56","date_gmt":"2022-07-10T19:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/michaelwdean.com\/?p=1931"},"modified":"2022-07-10T13:56:16","modified_gmt":"2022-07-10T19:56:16","slug":"using-deep-sky-stacker-for-better-space-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.michaelwdean.com\/?p=1931","title":{"rendered":"Using Deep Sky Stacker for better space photos"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nI took these photos using this gear and methods<\/a>. I took 15 of each area, and also took 15 DARKS (photos same settings same night same temp same camera with the lens cap on, to produce a record of the noise inherent to the camera CCD to remove with software later.)<\/p>\n

I ran the RAW photo files through Photoshop using a script to batch turn them all into TIFFs, with no compression and keeping the sizes the same. I used this tutorial on YouTube<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I used the free program Deep Sky Stacker<\/a>, using this YouTube tutorial<\/a>. I did the thing where I ran “Register Checked Photos”, and told it to only use 80% best photos. Then it ran. Took 15 to 30 min for each of the two sets.<\/p>\n

Then I ran the resulting TIFF outputs through Adobe Lightroom Classic to turn up the contrast, de-haze, blacks, color saturation saturation a bit, and saved the profile as a starting point next time.<\/p>\n

I tried auto-removing the little bit of purple fringing, but kept it in, it makes the stars look a little more like jewels. lol.<\/p>\n

Fun fact: DSS counts the stars before it runs. There are about 60,000 distinct visible stars in each of these photos.<\/p>\n

I got a RedCat telescope so things might get even more interesting soon.<\/p>\n

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— I took these photos using this gear and methods. I took 15 of each area, and also took 15 DARKS (photos same settings same night same temp same camera with the lens cap on, to produce a record of the noise inherent to the camera CCD to remove with software later.) I ran the … Continue reading “Using Deep Sky Stacker for better space photos”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[245],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mdad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelwdean.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelwdean.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelwdean.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelwdean.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelwdean.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelwdean.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelwdean.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelwdean.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.michaelwdean.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}