Intro to image stacking: Step-by-step

Barry · Post by **Barry** » Wed Oct 07, 2009 3:23 pm

Like a lot of astrophotographers, I get repeated questions on how to do things that although may seem simple, I have to remind myself that they were once beyond me...

So last night, I sat up all night and stacked some images in Deep Sky Stacker, taking screenshots all the way and writing down what I did as I went.

Hopefully this can answer a lot of questions and get the new blood in the game well on their way to adding to the richness of images proliferating amateur astronomy.

http://www.asignobservatory.com/index.p ... Itemid=125

Have a crack, enjoy and let's see what you new folks can do!!! YEEEHHARRR!

Baz.

swimaniac · Post by **swimaniac** » Thu Oct 08, 2009 9:23 am

THANK YOU BARRY!!!!

A very detailed and comprehensive step by step guide.
Now to try it when the sky clears.

Barry · Post by **Barry** » Thu Oct 08, 2009 3:56 pm

You're welcome mate. I pray it goes well for you!

Baz.

JoeyGalaxy · Post by **JoeyGalaxy** » Thu Oct 08, 2009 5:09 pm

Great infomations! [smilie=good-job.gif]

Thank you so much for your time taken and this will help me a lot!

Barry · Post by **Barry** » Sun Apr 04, 2010 10:46 pm

My pleasure Joe.

I just read a lot of other posts about the resulting image in DSS being grey. Let me reassure you people....THIS IS NORMAL part of the process. Once you have the final greyish looking stacked image, then you adjust the sliders or export to another editing program, but the data is there and aligned and stacked.

Cheers,

Barry.